Is GN going to put Google on a Performance Improvement Plan like they did with Asus?
You either die a hero or live and watch yourself turn into a villian.
Tom’s hardware, woot, and most recently donut media just to name a few. All were once the place to go, they all were bought out by bigger interest and eventually became the villian.
Donut - how? All the giga-sponsors they take lately?
They’ve been bought by an entertainment parent company, which is why the glut of sponsorships along with their content leaning towards pure entertainment instead of including educational and DIY content. Zach and Jeremiah started their own thing recently and explain in their first video.
I just saw their Big Time video! Glad those guys have the guts to do that.
Google is getting worse everyday and yet we still depends on it everyday
I’m slowly moving away to open source, self-hosted applications where possible. Changed search to a combination of Gibiru and Yep. Email to a mailcow server I host on a vps, and I’m moving photos to an Immich server I’m setting up. Home Automation is next, I have a Raspberry Pi 5 to act as the Home Assistant server. And a few other projects in the works to split from Google as much as I can and mostly it is all better.
Who thinks google will still be a traded company in 10 years?
Yahoo is still around in some form or another.
Alphabet has enough money to persist well after they lose relevance.
Too big to fail? Search is only one revenue stream.
Similar tactic among all the large tech corpos, switch focus to IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, become the backbone of the modern computing landscape.
It’s basically a slow switch to becoming critical international infrastructure like power grids, water ways, and gas/oil pipelines.
This all while locking you in as much as possible and milking as much value as they can squeeze.
That’d be advertising, and by a mile.
Through search. They make a ton with ads on the search page, sponsored links, etc.
I’m pretty sure their ad revenue from their own pages is a tiny fraction of their overall advertising revenue… They basically own the advertising market online, almost anywhere you see ads googie is getting a cut
This source seems to indicate that’s not the case:
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Google Search & Other (56.93%)
2023 Total Google Search & Other Revenue: $175.04 billion
This is revenue generated primarily from ads shown on Google’s search results pages and other search-related services. -
YouTube Ads (10.26%)
2023 Total Youtube Ads Revenue: $31.51 billion
This is revenue from ads shown on YouTube videos, including display ads, overlay ads, skippable video ads, and non-skippable video ads. -
Google Network (10.20%)
2023 Total Google Network Revenue: $31.316 billion
This is revenue from ads displayed on websites and apps that are part of Google’s ad network, beyond Google-owned properties. -
Google Other (11.26%)
2023 Total Google Other Revenue: $34.68 billion
This is revenue from Google’s other ventures and products, such as hardware (like Pixel phones and Nest devices), Play Store purchases, and other non-advertising sources. -
Google Cloud (10.75%)
2023 Total Google Cloud Revenue: $33.08 billion
This is revenue from Google’s cloud computing services, such as computing power, storage, and data analytics offered to businesses and developers.
So, 57% from search, and only 10% from ads on non-Google pages.
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I mean IBM is still traded but it’s a shadow if it’s former self
ICQ shut down yesterday and it was relatively small to begin with so I‘m afraid Google will be around for decades to come and possibly outlive most or even all of us.
"Google is getting worse. Now watch me talk about the situation on a youtube video. Youtube is a property owned by google. "
Where’s that iPhone comic about society
This one?
Yeah that’s it, thanks
You know who is most fed up with YouTube’s policies? Content creators on YouTube. They’re locked in, they know it, and they hate it.
Just took a look at them, and Rumble is for sure a hard pass. The 2 rows under “news” is all far-right extremist videos, which is great if you are aiming for the Parlor/Truth Social/Nazi and Nazi sympathizers of the internet, but I think you’ll miss most of the world going that toxic on the frontage.
There’s also PeerTube, the Fediverse counterpart to YouTube. Unfortunately, while there’s some good stuff you can find (and some re-uploads of YouTube), there’s just not as much content. I’d imagine the userbase is pretty small, too.
I hope the fediverse attracts enough adoption to make it long term viable. I am making an effort to be here more than there for lemmy/Reddit but YouTube is still harder to quit
Yeah, I’m in the same boat.
When I first got to Reddit a front page post was like 1000 upvotes so Lemmy is approximately sorta the same level of users as when I first got to Reddit
Thank you for proving my point.
To your point, the amount of money/effort to even try and rival YouTube (and/or Google) would be a hell of a task for sure. Since you would want it to be open, well moderated (but not so much that the majority of people scream “censorship!”), and be able to store/encode/serve a wild amount of video daily. And the later 2 things get exponentially more difficult as you scale.
It would need to be like the Fediverse on steroids, doing a distributed filesystem allowing every federated member to host/encode/serve part of the burden (like Kazaa/Limewire/DC++) but in some manner that people could be assured node hosts couldn’t tamper with videos. And then you would also need some sort of reward for creators that wouldn’t somehow lead to greedy power struggles causing an implosion of your open platform.
Ah, to dream.
Okay. My point is we have Youtube alternatives. But people don’t use them. Because they can’t filter out the stuff they don’t like.
In their current state, I would argue none of them are actually alternatives in the sense of being a real replacement. None of them is setup to scale, making the moderation/filtering point kinda moot.
It’s not bad if you subscribe to a handful of channels and only watch those. I use Grayjay, so I just turn off Rumble search and only see like 1-2 channels I’ve subbed to.
The issue seems to be that people who are not welcome on Youtube go to Rumble, and that’s largely right wing commentators, crypto bros who crossed a line, etc.
The same is true for Odyssee, but a little less extreme since Rumble is the bigger and more obvious platform.
I personally don’t care what alternative a creator uses, I just want to avoid Youtube.
You the stones to destroy the stones.
You’re so edgy! I’m jelly…
And exactly where do you propose they talk about it and actually have people see it?
Hell yeah, more Wendell.
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