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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.
Who thinks google will still be a traded company in 10 years?
I mean IBM is still traded but it’s a shadow if it’s former self
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.
Yahoo is still around in some form or another.
Alphabet has enough money to persist well after they lose relevance.
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.