Comment by frostwarrior

> What I don't want to understand is how Google could come so close and fail. They have 10% projects and moonshots. They have the monopoly-like income stream to fund it. But instead of creating progress, their products seem to get worse and worse.

They sell information and ads. Most of their products are targeted towards that.

And ads give the client zero added value. It's not a product, it's not a utility nor a tool.

Many of their products are oriented towards that. And it's hard to produce good inventions when your business model is basically dark patterns.