Comments on: Google can’t keep a simple automatic door working; do you really think Wave is going to be a success?

By: Wyzyrd

Wyzyrd — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:48:43 +0000

And this comes as a surprise to whom? Campbell’s makes soup. They occasionally market other products, but not very seriously. Campbell’s-branded cellphones, stereos, coffee and schoolbuses might be useful market-research, but mostly, they’re gonna sell you cans of fricken’ soup, because that’s what they do. Google does search.

By: Simmy

Simmy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:59:24 +0000

I see nothing wrong with Google’s focus on their search related features, in fact I kind of think it’s admirable (well may be not admirable, but its the only word I could think of) of them to even be doing the Google Labs projects in the first place, especially the ones that have no real impact on the search aspect.

By: SEBridge

SEBridge — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:10:01 +0000

Very good points. I admire Google for their culture still, but in many ways it operates like a university, and search is the football team. There is a larger point to be made too–many people are averse to using services that make companies money. This is absurd. When a company makes money at something, it has an incentive to improve it. That may be an unpopular fact right now given today’s anti-greed backlash. Greed IS good, but must be tempered by other sensibilities as well.