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If the parts of Google ever talked to each other, or a top level manager ever charted out a multi-product strategy, the company could actually accomplish something that didn't make the web a much worse place. I don't even know if it is possible, instead it just dives down.
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It is completely within Google's major set of corporate imperatives that the web be stable, fast, and easy to monetize without compromising the first two values. But instead of working as a single company they basically all butt heads and drive the internet into the trash heap.
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Google shouldn't ever have gotten to the point where it even had that level of power, but that it does and still can't get its shit together to even accomplish a single axis of its well-incentivized values is a pretty searing inditement of modern capitalism.
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Like this isn't even at Google's inability to hold on to 'don't be evil' anymore. This is at 'don't be self-sabotaging shit at the things that make you money' levels and with no end in sight.
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It's like if a multi-billion dollar dog food company kept accidentally slipping poison in the dog food and failing at Literally It's Job and kept going with not even a hiccup. That's the current state of Google.
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tldr: Dear Google, Have a freaking strategy. kthxbye