[rurp]

I'd also add their insistence on using the same branding approach for experimental apps as their core offerings. A new app named `Google $RandomNoun` has a really high chance of being killed a few years from now, while `Google Search` and `Google Maps` don't. I'm sure the company wants to use the same structure to give new products an initial boost, but they seem weirdly indifferent to the long term damage it's doing to the overall brand.

[steve_adams_86]

They’re not weirdly indifferent, they’re busy shovelling cash into their vaults from their advertising oriented businesses

[londons_explore]

The used to call things Google Labs Foo.

That idea was canned...