• Optional@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It’s time to start calling it something else. Google is dead.

    Was it ever truly alive? Yes. For one magical summer.

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      4 months ago

      It’s the normal corporate lifecycle. Founders build it up. Workers expand it. Suits take over to monetize everything. A private equity firms squeezes the last life out of it.