[ivoras]

They can't monetize it enough, which seems like a perfect situation to sell it to someone who will be happy with a lower cash flow point, or spin it off.

It's actually surprising to me that big companies are so ready to kill products instead of selling them to someone who cares.

[martinald]

The thing is if they can't monitise it better than someone else, they're better letting them bid up the costs of AdWords (which i assume are pricey on these sorts of keywords). Lot of opportunity cost on this one.

[aikah]

Aside from being an ad network based on data-mining search what did Google successfully monetize ? are they making money with Android directly for instance or is it Ad-sense that is paying for that ?