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by car54whereareu 4866 days ago
> I think Google messed up badly early on by not putting marketing muscle

But according to ForrestN

> Google has been heavily reliant on branding from the very beginning. Being nerdy, "don't be evil," even being anti-marketing are all very conscious branding strategies, emphasized over and over again in PR contexts especially.

The concept of marketing muscle just evaporated for me. It seems like you mean they should have behaved differently.