Google Innovation Decline

I don't have any clue either but I think Google is changing from a young company to an established one (think Apple). Before, they were ambitious and actually worked for the people, but now, they are unstoppable so they ought to do what they want.It's a shame that they are now even more profit-seeking than seeking customer's satisfaction.They also closed many services which were not profitable for them like Poly, Daydream and are now even removing the free backup option in G

Google is dysfunctional. Their promo incentives favor short-term thinking.The original founders are gone.The only reason they're alive is their ad/search moat. It's a walking IBM/Oracle, otherwise.Don't forget when it leaked a year or so ago that even Google Cloud Platform is on their chopping block if they don't meet targets.I wouldn't trust this company with anything. Photos, music, youtube videos, mail. They do not care.

Google is more about "burying the giants in piles of money, and standing on that."

the point is probably about whether google still has the ability to go from 0 to 1. instead of 1 to n. from the outside they look like they are not so slowing becoming the bean counting accountant / MBA type of company.

You say it like it has to be one or the other, but why can't it be both?Google has chosen businesses where most of their users aren't, as you point out, their customers. They're the product.What made them interesting in the beginning is that their behaviors were different than the economic incentives. They were engineering-focused, so they made a great search engine, and didn't worry about revenue maximization. They were, as far as I can tell, really serious about organ

Google is about monoculture (certain type personality) - and from their business perspective it seems that approach works. Why to change it?If they try to invent something new or in different market they might need different type of people but as of now ads business is cash cow and they would be crazy to try change it.

Because Google is an R&D company not a consumer product company.It doesn’t give a shit about UX, but generating piles of data for PhDs to generate statistics from.Sundar bailed on the moonshots, but it’s hiring culture was already established and he’s not been able to turn the focus to interesting things relying on statisticians and leetcoders seeking the so called prestige of churning out nothing.It’s funny how big corps LARP changing our world but the careless resource waste, rent

Devil's advocate. What if everything Google has done and is doing is actually good for what a company is actually generally meant to do... generate revenue. The company has been growing and as it is now publicly traded, stockholder value very much becomes the drum beat.Of course one can argue that Google is no longer the altruistic, everyone has value place it used to be, but perhaps it no longer wants to be. This is not necessarily a failure, just a re-prioritization of goals. For every

Google isn’t dumb. They are an advertising company that creates hype with other experimental products (to increase stock prices) they fully intend to dismantle, and buys out functional tech companies.They are using hype to increase their stock and axe them later to show a better earnings report further increasing stock prices.They are intelligent and runs on innovative hype but at their heart they’re an advertising company.

This is a gimmick. Google did lots of evil things hiding behind its motto of do no evil. Similarly this is only a mechanism to attract smart kids out of the college with an allure of high paying "startup". Google can't be a startup again. It's a public company. Too many people's too much money is betting against it.