For self-driving, Waymo isn't technically Google anymore. ;)

I don't know anything about Quantum so I'll defer to you on that one.

In the LLMs/inference/ML space they seem to be great at theory and poor at execution until someone else shows them what the model looks like first. Similar to with cloud. Or with mobile. Or with voice assistants. Or with social (well, they never got there on that one even with the copy attempt.) Which is a classic "decline phase" behavior (see also Xerox, Bell).

If all Google products outside of their research papers and labs had disappeared ten years ago, what product categories would be missing?

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amazingamazing 35 minutes ago | parent [-]

YouTube has nearly the same MAU as Facebook. YouTube is definitely social, albeit different. The rest, well I respectively disagree.

	▲	majormajor 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's fair. In my taxonomy it's media+ads, which was "fewer unique verticals" but it certainly has a heavy social component. But it's also over 20 years old.