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."

Comments

So wait.

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When Google starts charging for all this free crap, and trust me they will, what will YOU do.

It's a plot

[Anonymous Coward]

Skynet is coming.

Re:Funny thing

[smart.id]

Although I do not mind your preference of using the "u" in honour, I do take offense to your usage of a single "v" in the word savvy.