Google Strategy Doc from Antitrust Proceedings

[rcjordan]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1821554841786683554.html

[Travoli]

That was an interesting read, thanks. Seems they've been doing exactly what you'd expect they've been doing over the last decade.

[ergophobe]

First thought: great article and Google comes off looking far far far from the "Don't be evil" beginnings.

Second thought: it is super sad that there is nothing surprising in there.

Third thought: in the free stuff that I had forgotten about that can't pay for itself as a separate business, GA would have to be at the top of the list. It's whole reason for being is to provide a data mine to the money-making businesses. That becomes an interesting downward data spiral for Google.

My old company looked into GA Premium or whatever they call the paid version and it was a lot of money. Could I be remembering right that for our portfolio of properties it was going to be something on the order of $100,000/year for the fancy paid version of GA for a portfolio of 26 hotels and a handful of other properties with a web presence?

I've got to think that even at $5/month at least half of the GA properties go dark. At $50/month, 90%.

[rcjordan]

>they've been doing exactly what you'd expect
>there is nothing surprising in there

I started to title the thread along the lines of "Once again, th3core got it right."