Disagree -- their (hugely successful) advertising platform is built upon and relies on their "architecture" to achieve the monstrous circulation it receives. The two aspects of their business plan are intertwined and cannot be separated if *True Google Enlightenment* is to be achieved.
--Doug On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > No. I've figured out their business plan: Advertisement. They agree and > are very public about it. > > Its their "architecture" I don't get. > > Here's a good post to the earlier /. suggested read. Note the third > paragraph about tying it together. Yes, I'd love a "desktop in the sky" > usable on everything in my digital kit bag (TV, phone, computer, iPad, ...) > but so far Google isn't even close in terms of coherence. > > <quote> > The innovation comes in how this all ties together. Google Mail + Buzz + > Wave + Contacts (Yes contacts is its own thing.) Voice + Talk + Maps + Chat > + Calendar + (Maybe docs, it still blows though) + Search = One hell of a > system of tools to organize and manage how you do "stuff" > > And when you start integrating that into phones, netbooks (Think Chrome OS) > + your traditional web browser you can do some pretty cool stuff. > > However right now Google's biggest challenge is tying all this stuff >> together. Calendar + Groups? Maps + Gmail? Buzz + Calendar? Not even >> remotely tied together. >> > > Lets be blunt here. The above Facebook has nothing like this. MS doesn't > either. Google is creating a virtual desktop. That is all there is to it. > </quote> > > -- Owen > > > > On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > All I can say is that it (the apparent random approach to producing >> products and product support) is working, and I wish I had bought goog at >> its IPO. >> >> I'm serious too: you're complaining that you can't figure out Google's >> business plan, and I'm complaining that their business plan (whatever it is) >> has been so successful that the company is wallowing in money, none of which >> I got. Not only has Google been hugely successful with their business plan >> (whatever it is), they have that other behemoth money factory, M$, running >> scared. >> >> I'm not going to pretend to be able to describe, justify, dissect, or >> pontificate upon Goog's business plan, other than to observe that it has >> been hugely successful. >> >> --Doug >> >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> On Feb 10, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: >> >> They are going to continue down that very same road which has taken them >> to all those multi billions of dollars which they keep stuffing into their >> overflowing coffers. Why kill the goose that keeps laying all of those >> delicious golden eggs? >> >> And that is? Can you describe "that very same road"? I'm serious. As >> far as I can see its near-random. >> >> >> -- Owen >> > > >
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