Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Yeah. Interesting. You're making an argument, not this specific argument, but a category argument that by acquiring these companies and taking a productivity focus strategy for several years, adopting that at Google. It was actually a major distraction from either their core strategy within search or finding another leg of the stool that would e a better fit with their core capabilities as a company. Versus trying to go down a path that they really weren't equipped to succeed in. Yeah. I think at the end of the day, Google was looking for a second huge business, much like for Microsoft add Windows and then they had Office. There are some argument that it contributes to their existing business. They were going after selling productivity tools. That just didn't become a huge business for them. It's a decent business. I think it's a self-sustaining business. It's a profitable business, but it's not a Google scale business. Yup. It's not a huge business.…

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