Google has suffered from curse of bigness: almost all successful consumer-facing products failed or were shut down. Almost all their successes (video, ads, documents, maps, etc.) were acquired from others and operationalized rather than invented internally.

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Cory Doctorow

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they've had like one really successful consumer-facing product launch, and that was in the previous millennium. And almost everything they made in this millennium failed

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We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:46:41 PM

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