Google 'Wasting' $16 Billion On Projects Headed Nowhere 408
hapworth writes "Google's engineering culture is 'wasting profits,' according to a new report published today that refers to $16 billion worth of Google projects that are going nowhere. According to the analysis, it's not that the ideas — such as the Kansas City Fiber Project, driverless cars, and other engineering efforts — are bad. Rather, it's Google's poor execution that is killing the company and adding billions of dollars worth of projects to its 'trash pile.'" On the obvious other hand, Google's done a lot of interesting things over the years that they've managed to make work well, and that strayed from their initial single-text-field search bar.
Re:killed? (Score:5, Funny)
But they could make (pinky to mouth) TRILLIONS!
Re:Searching for hoses (Score:4, Funny)
So he was saying that the internet really is a series of tubes?
"You're doing it wrong" (Score:5, Funny)
Shape up Google, you're doing it wrong!
Re:Its called risk and research. (Score:2, Funny)
At $38B total revenue, that's less than $1.5B in total non-ad revenue, which is pretty much chump change.
Re:killed? (Score:5, Funny)
By their names, duh.
Wave vs UNIX.
Re:killed? (Score:5, Funny)
So there's this thing called "mass transit"...
Yeah. There's also a thing called winning lottery tickets.
Unfortunately I don't have access to either.
Re:Its called risk and research. (Score:4, Funny)
No kidding, I saw a $1.5B bill on the sidewalk the other day, but I had an armful of groceries and figured, "why bother?"