Google is a search engine company, thats all they are. They dont make money on Android, Android only succeeded because they marketed apps on an app store like iPhone. They dont make money on Gmail. They are losing market share on video hosting with their obnoxious advertising on Youtube. They actually made a worse social networking site than Facebook, how is that even possible? Facebook was not even designed for large scale social networking, it was just a univeristy social site that went viral. So if someone were to come up with a search engine that became more popuar that Google, then Google is dead, billions in advertising would be lost. Google lacks vision and leadership. So why do Google and Facebook continue to enjoy dominance. The life blood of the tech industry has always been startups, young people with new ideas springing up to challange the larege entrenched tech corporations. MS, Apple, HP, Yahoo, Facebook, Google all started out as tiny startups of just a couple of friends with good ideas. But that is dead now, no one can seem to come up with ideas to challange Google and Facebook, we are stuck with crap. Im writing this because Ive applied to Facebook and Google and they wont consider me because they are closed to new ideas, they think what they have works and are only looking for obedient yesmen. Anyone here interested in a startup? contact me at fraksworld@hotmail.com (this is my junk email address, spam it all you want)
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I would be more than glad to put on a presentation to outline my ideas in order to apply for Strategist position for a companies like HP, Facebook, Oracle or Google that have the capitol and manpower to implement my ideas. I would also be willing to speak with a deep pocketed venture capitalist about my ideas, I would only ask for a 20% stake if he were to accept me in a partnership. I would also be willing to talk to a talented an experienced web programmer about my ideas for a 50/50 share in a business we agree to start.
my email again is fraksworld@hotmail.com
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Anonymous2012-08-11 22:50
Apply to YCombinator, grab Mentifex and tdavis as co-founders.
Google is a search engine company, thats all they are.
Google is an ad company. They make 99.9% of their revenue on ads.
So if someone were to come up with a search engine that became more popuar that Google, then Google is dead, billions in advertising would be lost.
How would better search engine change the fact that their ads are everywhere?
The life blood of the tech industry has always been startups, young people with new ideas springing up to challange the larege entrenched tech corporations. MS, Apple, HP, Yahoo, Facebook, Google all started out as tiny startups of just a couple of friends with good ideas.
Have you any idea how many tiny startups fail? Do you have any idea how many tiny startups a VC invests in without any expectation of ever seeing that money again?
Im writing this because Ive applied to Facebook and Google and they wont consider me because they are closed to new ideas, they think what they have works and are only looking for obedient yesmen.
So you formed you worthless opinions on these companies that only hire the best of the best because you're nowhere near the best? Gee, you don't say...
>>8 How would better search engine change the fact that their ads are everywhere?
their ads are everywhere because they have complete domination of web searches. They lose web search dominance, their shitty little ad boxes are going to disappear quick from peoples webpages.
Have you any idea how many tiny startups fail? Do you have any idea how many tiny startups a VC invests in without any expectation of ever seeing that money again?
I like your defeatist mentality, send me an email and when I get my startup going I might hire you for a shit clerical job that will fit your total lack of creative thought.
So you formed you worthless opinions on these companies that only hire the best of the best because you're nowhere near the best? Gee, you don't say...
yeah I do say. corporate mentality never wins in the tech sector. MS has lost its startup culture and is being run into the ground by ivy league execs who dont know shit about the culture that drives software innovation.
>>11 They lose web search dominance, their shitty little ad boxes are going to disappear quick from peoples webpages.
How?
I like your defeatist mentality
It's not defeatist, nor is it my mentality, it's a fact of life that every Silicon Valley insider has come to grips with. That fact of life is that most startups are not profitable, and few will ever become profitable. The examples you used were Youtube and Gmail. Do you really think those are the only non-profitable tech companies? Even Twitter doesn't make any money.
>>12 How?
which company would you advertise with? Joe's Ad Agency somewhere downtown where you live or a major media company like Google or Time Warner? You really think if Google lost their search engine market share they will still get advertising?
Do you really think those are the only non-profitable tech companies? Even Twitter doesn't make any money.
knowing how to turn a profit from a profitless business is an art in itself and is what separates the failures from the big names
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Anonymous2012-08-12 0:39
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I'd rather advertise with google because they have better targeting resources and everything about their service is easy to use.
It would drive you into bankruptcy to offer a similar level of service.
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Anonymous2012-08-12 1:01
polecat getgoes
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Anonymous2012-08-12 1:57
If you're looking for someone who will risk financial backing because you sound like you have a good idea, try look at Kickstarter.com. That sounds like the most direct route that you're ever going to get anywhere with that kind of mentality. At the very least, going the Kickstarter route should get you motivated in the way you don't seem to be right now: you actually start developing these big dreams you have and showing their prototypes off.
I frankly don't blame those companies for turning you down if you openly presented yourself in that kind of light. You sound like every cliche playwright, the waiter who works at a Hollywood restaurant on the side while you work out the details of the next "big Blockbuster's script," only without the waiter routine.
Don't get me wrong: that's a good kind of attitude to have but that's the kind of thing you internalize. You don't go into a company telling them what you want to change about their company.
Additionally, your history about Google's success just "as a search engine" is slightly off, but I try to limit history lessons for that antisemitic spammer on /newpol/.
You sound like every cliche playwright, the waiter who works at a Hollywood restaurant on the side while you work out the details of the next "big Blockbuster's script,"
I almost wish that was true, I wish tech industry was being lead by smart people, but its not anymore. I dont know how bad things have to get before people realize that MS is going to kill proprietary software industry and drive everyone to use Linux. That when Steve Jobs died, so did his startup mentality of excitement over innovation, that Apple now sells a legacy they are no longer creating what they sell. The world is full of charlatans trying to sell hype and gimmicks. But when the people who lead online content companies worth billions of dollars in capitol cant come up with interesting new ideas, then there no need to hide the fact, you have to come right out and say that they have the opportunity to go big but have dropped the ball.
thanks for the tip on kickstarter.com
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Fun fact: Youtube is and always was a subsidized service that never made a net profit. While ads alleviate some of its unprofitability, it still takes a lot of money to maintain.
Microsoft does not open a video hosting service because it will inevitably be unprofitable. Google does not take Youtube down because Youtube is an important part of the Net infrastructure.
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Anonymous2012-08-12 6:14
>>24
"Sergey" is a variation of "Sergius". So it is a Roman name.
You now have to enclose all your search terms in quotes to guarantee you'll get what you want.
A short while ago I searched "disable xxxx" and a ton of the results were about "enable xxxx".
I know they probably have data storage issues to contend with, but silently unifying the indices for completely opposite search terms is horrific.
I still remember when Google gave you exactly the search results you were looking for, so you didn't have to search the SERPs themselves to filter out the stuff that didn't include your search terms.
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there are plenty of people on the internet who have commented on Google and Facebooks lack inability to satisfy customers with their online content, I dont know how I would even go about gathering such references. as Ive already said, I would only reveal my ideas on how to improve this content to people who are qualified to implement these improvements.