geeky_username

geeky_username t1_j7chxwk wrote

>the fact that they invented it, but didn't release it, it means that they thought the technology would be a threat to them

I slightly disagree with this.

Imo, from what I know of Google from people that do or used to work there - they likely didn't care or didn't think of it.

Inside Google is a researcher's playground and there's little to no pressure to ever go to market. I've seen things that are extremely impressive that's never been published or put into a product. Asking why - they just don't care to do so.

The higher-ups lack imagination now, and unless something can directly obviously improve ads, they don't care.

So for years you've had engineers not caring to make something marketable, and leadership not caring but still throwing money at it. My impression is that leadership was looking for something that was so obviously a home run they didn't want to bother with releasing and iterating.

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