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Tepid Results from Google's New Product Process
bart_scriv writes "BusinessWeek digs into Google's new products, first interviewing Marissa Mayer on the process behind the recent flurry of product launches; the essential process: 'try a bunch of new ideas, refine them and see what survives'. How successful is the process? Despite lots of fanfare, a close look at the products reveals that Google still hasn't produced a huge winner: 'An analysis of some two dozen new ventures launched over the past four years shows that Google has yet to establish a single market leader outside its core search business, where it continues to chew up Microsoft and Yahoo.'"
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They are adding on thousands of employees every quarter. For instance, in one quarter, they went from 5500 employees to over 6700. Perhaps the problem wasn't with Google, but with you? Maybe the hiring person just didn't have the heart to call you and tell you that you weren't qualified and up to snuff?
>In the seventies, there was a huge study care to provide a reference? This sounds remarkably like you pulled it out of the air. People have known since before Rockefeller cornered the oil market that being a "market leader" allowed you to set prices above marginal cost to a degree dependent on your market power, which has nothing whatsoever to do with economies of scale. To say that producing a larger slice of the market breakdown, i.e. producing more, allows you to capture more economies of scale is equivalent to saying economies of scale may exist. It's near tautological. You might check yourself next time you choose to go into clueless pedant mode.