On: Google launches Compute Engine

[Bjartr]

>Where is the focus?

Every Google product exists to one end: Get more people looking at Google Ads.

Google ads are so pervasive that almost anything that gets people to be on the internet more is straight up beneficial to Google.

Search? Ads right there.

Gmail? Ads right there.

Youtube? Ads right there.

Google 411? Collect massive quantities of voice samples to train the systems that became Youtube's automatic subtitle system. More features on Youtube = more eyes on ads.

Android? Web browser in your pocket = ad delivery in your pocket. Then there's in app ads too. And then there's the invaluable data mining that makes the ads worth more to sellers by making them more effective.

Google+? Never leaving Facebook means never seeing a Google ad, action had to be taken.

Google+/Chrome/Currents for iOS? Get people on that other device looking at more ads too!

Self driving car? Can you imagine how many ads you could be looking at during the time you normally spend driving?!

Glass? Ads ALL THE TIME.

[rblackwater → Bjartr]

Correct. Microsoft's OEMs were the real customers and Google's corporate partners are the real customers. Users are the products.

[vannevar → Bjartr]

Great point, but if people stop using those Google services because they start perceiving the diluted brand as inferior, that doesn't help the cause.