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Google products are free--long enough to destroy a poor startup. Shame on Google.
by itswindy 15y ago
Google products are free--long enough to destroy a poor startup. Shame on Google.
- ceejayoz 15y agoThis is, in essence, a new product from Google. What has been free continues to be free.
- itswindy 15y agoFor now.
- ceejayoz 15y agoGoogle likely benefits hugely from providing the service for free. The massive amount of data it provides about user behaviour across the public Internet must be hugely valuable to them.
- true_religion 15y agoI always thought the real goal of Google Analytics was to upsell me into using Adwords, and to prove once and for all that there's no point in optimizing for any search engine except for google.
- throwaway32 15y agothe real goal of free Google Analytics is to get people to place the javascript tracking snippet on their webpages so they can collect data for Ads and now paying customers.
- pbw 15y agoGoogle also benefits directly because telling people how much traffic they have is a powerful enticement for AdWords.