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swat535 | on: Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
> Google will be considered "the new IBM" in 20 years.

They have plenty of great tech for consumers right now: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Chrome, Android,..

You can perhaps argue that search might suffer because of AI but they've done a great job scaling horizontally into many verticals.

I don't think Google is going anywhere.

thefourthchime | parent | next
The newest of those are 20 years old.

Let’s be honest. Google was amazing back then, now they’re just an ad-business flailing around in other side quests.

dweekly | root | parent | next
GCP/Vertex, Firebase, Spanner, Waymo, Gemini + Nano Banana, Google Photos, TPUs, Pixel, Assistant, Google Fi, Taara...
dghlsakjg | root | parent | next
Most of those are also at least a decade old, and some of them are acquisitions.
svachalek | root | parent | next
It's a lot of stuff, but with the possible exception of Waymo and the TPU, isn't this all going down in history under "also ran"?
kthinckley | root | parent
Every single one of these hemorrhages money from their ad business
CountHackulus | root | parent | next
Gmail is going to be Google's System/390 mainframes.
outside1234 | root | parent
People used to say the same thing about Microsoft with Windows you know...
rockskon | parent | next
Once upon a time it would've been unthinkable for Google search to become awful and nearly worthless due, in large part, by Google's discretionary choices.

Related - interns these days don't seem to have any particular preference for using Google for finding information...

astrange | root | parent | next
Google search is bad because there aren't any websites anymore. It's not really possible for it to be good.
entropy47 | root | parent | next
Comments like this make me wonder if we're all inhabiting the same reality.
rockskon | root | parent
That's for multiple reasons - many of them directly being Google's fault with intentional choices made towards this end.
sklargh | root | parent | next
Can you explain this behavior a little bit more. Where do they seek information - is it a consumer chat app, social media app’s search functions?
rockskon | root | parent
Bing because it's the default on their web browsers they've used in college and work.

But moreso - whatever the default is what they use. They have zero attachment to Google.

xnx | root | parent
Bing shows no signs of marketshare growth: https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share
rockskon | root | parent
I noticed that website doesn't show the absolute numbers involved in search engine use.

And you ignored the part where I said "they use the default".

browningstreet | root | parent
^FTFY “interns these days don’t seem to have any particular preference for finding information”
smcleod | parent
I think it's a bit inflated to label Gmail a "great tech for consumers". Maps certainly, YouTube mostly, Chrome & Android for loyalists, but Gmail hasn't been "great tech" for well over a decade.

Additionally these are all old products - even the company's more recent products such as Gemini feel stale and on unsteady ground.