Bye Bye, Google

[oldpueblo]

That ... doesn't even make any sense.

Exactly.

 

[Michael Alan Goff]

Exactly.

I meant your comparison, it makes no sense.

 

[RumoredNow]

I meant your comparison, it makes no sense.

oldpueblo made a nonsensical analogy to point out the flaws in another analogy (the one he quoted before writing about his fecal manufactory).

Commonly known as satire, it is an ages old method of discourse showing how ridiculous one thing is by creating a parallel absurdity.

 

[Michael Alan Goff]

oldpueblo made a nonsensical analogy to point out the flaws in another analogy (the one he quoted before writing about his fecal manufactory).

Commonly known as satire, it is an ages old method of discourse showing how ridiculous one thing is by creating a parallel absurdity.

He's trying for satire? Also, he didn't point out any flaws in the post he quoted. There was no analogy that I saw. The post he quoted said that Microsoft and Google are both advertising companies. The only way that you can say that's false is if you go on the premise that a company can only be one type of company, which is a ridiculous notion.

 

[a5cent]

^ Nobody is saying a company can do only one thing. However, it does make sense to consider whether a given market and the corresponding revenue streams are of strategic importance to a particular company or not. Bing is strategically important to MS, and advertising is one component that contributes to its financing, but that revenue stream isn't strategically important the way their corporate customers and revenue are. Nadella is unlikely thinking about how to streamline the company towards becoming the best advertising business in the industry. Their corporate structures and business processes are optimized towards other goals. No company can be good at many different things. Those that try have always failed. Companies must focus on one or two things. Business types call this "focusing on core competencies". For Google, advertising is one of those core competencies. For MS it isn't. That is the underlying point. IOW, almost everything Google does is, in some way, related to improving how they target ads. That is not true at all for MS. That's why one is an advertising company while the other isn't.

 

[RumoredNow]

He's trying for satire? Also, he didn't point out any flaws in the post he quoted. There was no analogy that I saw. The post he quoted said that Microsoft and Google are both advertising companies. The only way that you can say that's false is if you go on the premise that a company can only be one type of company, which is a ridiculous notion.

You are being deliberately obtuse. Another ages old method of discourse wherein one steadfastly refuses that a valid point has been put forth which needs to be addressed for the discourse to advance. It is a stalling tactic which provides no new input into the conversation and relies upon an entrenched reiteration of the fact being refuted.

Engaging in advertising and being an advertising company are demonstrably two different things.

 

[fatclue_98]

It doesn't matter if Microsoft is a recycling company and Google is a plumbing company, the point of this thread is that Google engages in business practices that some people find undesirable and wish to divest themselves from them. Okay?

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[maclancer]

Google main business practice is to try and get as more people to their businesses as possible... Google does not give a crap if they monopolizes everything. Google is like a giant spoiled kid... They want and think deserve everything for themselves. Sharing is not in their mentality.