Beating Google
Monday March 10, 2008 // Share on Facebook
As I said earlier, some companies cannot be beaten by anyone but themselves. I used eBay as the example, but this was reaffirmed recently by Silicon Alley Insider:
Don’t you know you can’t beat Google — it can only beat itself
The author was referencing some joke @ Yahoo who said his job was to beat Google. Yahoo can’t beat Google. Yahoo / Micro$oft can’t beat Google. Only Google can beat Google.
As a service, I believe Google is beating themselves by straying away from their motto, “do no evil”. As a company, the shareholders are feeling some pain now that Wall Street’s golden child is showing some signs of slowing down.
What does Google need to do, in order to keep from beating themselves up? Is it time for some new leadership? Or was Google’s ideals too Utopian, and their finances too optimistic? Is this just a natural correction?
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