Why Google's New Products Need Not Succeed

RJS writes "There have been some industry analysts lately who have called into question Google's real success, claiming that while Google's search remains a big winner, it has missed the mark when it comes to generating profitable, secondary products. BusinessWeek has just such an article ("So much fanfare, so few hits") but others argue that success relative to the size of Google's bread-and-butter (search) ultimately doesn't matter because it doesn't cost Google much extra to keep these secondary services — like Gmail — operational: the Google grid is on and growing regardless of what services are being run on top of it."

Profit is not expected yet FOR a reason!

[rel4x]

Of course none of their other software is creating a profit...how often does anyone's BETA software turn a profit?! ;-)

Re:Sure, they want to make money

[Om]

Maybe Google knows they make enough money on search and that they just want to release good, useful, user-friendly products that are miles better than the competition, even if they aren't profitable.

*slaps your face*

SNAP OUT OF IT! Don't you understand!? They're here to kill us all! ALL OF US!

++Om

Re:Hmmm... maybe?

[theStorminMormon]

So you admit to breaking the agreement with Google?

Yes, I did it, alright! I admit it! I did everything.

But why!? Why would you do that to Google, Stormin?

It was for the money. Money I needed. Money I could only get with 2 Gmail accounts.

Well do you think it was worth it now, Stormin? Now that we've got you red-handed? We're taking you downtown after this. It's the big house for you, Stormin. You threw your life away!

You don't know nothin copper! Was it worth it? Damn straight it was worth it! I did what I did to survive. Out on the street it's have 2 GMail accounts or die. I ain't sorry about what I done. I lived my life like a man, a man with with TWO GMAIL ACCOUNTS. Even if it's all over now, you can't take that away from me!

Sorry? The only thing I'm sorry about is getting caught. If only I'd kept my mouth shut on the stupid Slashdot forums, I'd have made it. I nearly did make it. You just got lucky, copper, and I didn't. You and I, we ain't so different.

Watch your mouth, Stormin, you want to run into an accident on the way to the station? Is that what you want?

We're through here. Just take me in already. Let's get this over with.

-stormin