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by pavlov 819 days ago
Google today feels like Nokia of the mid-2000s. Victim of its own massive success, taken over by internal politics and divisions. Employs lots of smart people who figured out key ideas for next-gen tech early, but the organization is unable to take any of those innovations to market. And so it’s just stuck milking its cash cow.

Google’s AI strategy is as clear as Nokia’s smartphone software strategy was.
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ta988 819 days ago
They took some of the best brains, spoiled them with high salaries and glory and took their best years to make them work on dumb problems and projects that were cancelled at various stages of their life.
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adrianmsmith 819 days ago
Those best brains did produce lots of interesting things, back in the day (not recently). The Google search algorithm, the ads auctioning system, Gmail, Golang, certain parts of Google Cloud like BigQuery (create relational tables, just stuff data in there, just scales by itself without "provisioning", write SQL queries including joins e.g. over hundreds of billions of rows...)
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unclebucknasty 819 days ago
Don't forget Google Wave.

May 2010 - August 2010.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave

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