Google Cloud Platform Technology Nuggets - July 1-15, 2025 Edition
Welcome to the July 1–15, 2025 edition of Google Cloud Platform Technology Nuggets. The nuggets are also available on YouTube.
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#27: Long Google
Two weeks ago, I put 10% of my net worth into Google stock. This is a first for me: while I have held positions in other big tech companies over time, I’ve always shied away from Google because I don’t really understand advertising.
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Yep. I had the exact same thought and proportionate response.
Google I (1996 - 2004)
The story of the single greatest business ever created: Google search.
Acquired fans, this is the episode we've all been waiting for. Ben and David have referenced Google as the greatest business model of all time across multiple shows, and they've finally delivered their deep dive—and what a masterpiece it is.
Preparing for Google Zero
How will we find customers when moats for distribution vanish?
Revenue recognition shouldn’t slow your business down—but too often, it does. As a CFO, I’ve seen how rigid systems, compliance hurdles, and manual workarounds make closing the books a nightmare.
Your customers are your moat.
Windsurf → Cognition (+$2.4B Google Deal)
Turing $300M+ Rev, X CEO?, Varda, Harmonic, Bilt, Brex, Kalshi's Virality Machine, Revolut
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More than valuations what will be decisive is how well the teams integrate. Most deals fail in the first 90 days after the closing. One thing is that cultural misalignment kills more deals than any financial metrics ever do.
The Google Indexing Purge Update
A new study from Indexing Insight to understand the largest content removal event by Google in May 2025.
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Automating Modeling - CVNA Test
Thanks Google!
Hi all, another update on my AI escapades in relation to finance work flows.
Google Stock Deep Dive 📝
Alphabet delivered exceptional Q1 2025 results that significantly exceeded Wall Street expectations, demonstrating the company's robust execution across its diversified technology portfolio. The company reported $90.2 billion in revenue (12% YoY growth), $2.81 EPS (49% YoY growth), and $34.5 billion in net income (46% YoY growth), with all key segments …
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Další epizoda ságy "Vydavatelé versus Google"
"Prosím, nalejte nám návštěvnost, ale nečtěte náš obsah a neukazujte ho. Jen pošlete ty lidi!"
A máme tu další díl nekonečného seriálu "Vydavatelé se bouří proti Googlu (a pak se vrátí s prosbami o odpuštění)". Tentokrát s hlavním padouchem jménem AI Overviews (AIO), který údajně způsobuje "existenční ohrožení nezávislé žurnalistiky". Jako někdo, kdo si pamatuje každou svatou válku s Googlem za posledních dvacet let, bych si mohl založit sázkovou…
Issue 110: Insta Google Search results
Google has announced that Instagram posts will now appear in Google Search results.
#14: Google Search is Dead
Hey, it’s Marc.
How OpenAI Could Dethrone Google Docs
A speculative forecast
Last week the news leaked that OpenAI were working on a rival to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. I wasn’t too optimistic in my initial reaction. The incumbents will have the advantage because I believe that the core paradigm of document suites won’t change dramatically with the introduction of Generative AI.
Google Outplayed OpenAI’s next big thing
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The Untold Story of Google Earth
How a 3D mirror of our world became an accidental time machine—and what happens when it starts to predict our future. 🌎→🔮
Just launched my 33-min documentary: "The Untold Story of Google Earth."
Great job!👏🏻
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I know how hard it is to search for a job. I personally had to apply to over 3000 jobs to get an internship and full time job. And this is exactly why, I provide all my resources and information for free. and I hope that even 1% of this can help you in your career. At the same time, I do this all by myself and don’t have anyone to help or any marketing …
How to get your time back
Back awayyy from the Google calendar
Welcome back to Techno Sapiens! I’m Jacqueline Nesi, a psychologist and professor at Brown University and mom of two young kids, one of whom has insisted on a “purple recycling truck cake” for his 4th birthday.
Don't worry - got the Hootie reference by the "I don't believe in time" heading! :)
I loved this, and it actually gave me terms to use as I have been struggling with why, even though I am not facing the pressures of a job, children, etc. and everything on my daily to-do list are actually things I want to do, I have still feel rushed. It's a feeling of Time poverty! Perfect. I suspect being in my mid 70s has added the sense of time poverty because I am now experiencing the relatively new pressure of "I don't know how much time I have left in life to get the stories I want to write, written" and the fact that so much more of my day is spent maintaining my body so that that I have the best chance of extending that time in healthy years. But, I have recently found that scheduling time when I will not multi-task; making sure that I include blocks of time each day to just be present in nature or read for pleasure; honoring the pleasure I get when I provide service to others, etc have been helping. But now I have a word for those days when I do feel like there is enough time - Time Abundance. So thanks!
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Hey There😎
BREAKING: Google Just Hijacked OpenAI’s Biggest Acquisition
We’re watching the biggest breakup in AI—with multibillion-dollar consequences, playing out in real time.
Good morning AI entrepreneurs & enthusiasts,
Big-tech musical chairs: Windsurf exits OpenAI’s orbit, lands at Google, and the Gemini playbook gets fatter. Will this spark an arms race for specialized teams, or just more fragmented ecosystems?
The breakup drama is riveting, but I’m most interested in whether Google will loosen the IP reins that tripped up Microsoft and OpenAI. Developers could use a win on licensing clarity.
AI could cause newsprint to outlive the hyperlink
What journalists do after Google Zero.
When it comes to journalistic intellectual property — what you and I normally call the news — there’s an inherent tension inside traditional commercial newsrooms between reporters (who do the journalism) and publishers (who have to pay for it).
I hate it, man.
Thirty years of old-fashioned journalism killed — I was laid off from my job as editor of a small daily 10 years ago. I’d still be covering my town if I could. Now, nobody is.
I entered the newsroom during the twilight of the Reagan Administration and spent a couple of decades writing from both staff and freelance positions at afternoon dailies (remember those?), morning dailies, weeklies, bi-weeklies, broadsheets and tabloids and at major metros, strong regionals and small locals and the glories of print newspaper reporting will simply never be replicated online. All of that is to say: organic reporting reaching a real readership and delivering a meaningful impact seems well within reach if publishers rediscover the promise of the newsprint medium. It doesn't need to be 'reimagined,' merely revitalized and pursued vigorously as a long-term investment. I pay top dollar to read The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal at my breakfast table each morning because I enjoy the read, the tactile experience and the complete absence of intrusive pop-ups and all with the peace of mind that comes with knowing that what stories I am choosing to focus on is unknown to anyone else other than my wife, who I occasionally disturb with a 'Jesus, honey, listen to this...' The groundwork for a rebirth of print news reporting has already been established.
Google Cloud Platform Technology Nuggets - June 16-30, 2025 Edition
Welcome to the June 16–30, 2025 edition of Google Cloud Platform Technology Nuggets. The nuggets are also available in the form of a Podcast.
Amazon, Google and Vibe Coding with Steve Yegge
Steve Yegge shares why Google struggles with platforms, how AI coding is deceptively hard, and why the "AI Fixer" role could be one spreading inside tech companies, in the future.
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“OK Google, Make Middle School Suck Even More!”
One father’s descent into seventh grade Chromebook Hell
Ever wish you could go back and relive seventh grade – that magical nine months of puberty, pimples, and soul-crushing insecurity? Of course not. A double root canal sounds more fun. But I think most of us retain at least a kernel of morbid curiosity about middle school – like subconsciously rubbernecking at some ghas…
John, your experience corresponds almost exactly with mine, after my son entered an LAUSD middle school last year. I organized a group of equally-appalled parents & teachers, and we’re starting to fight back against these (bananas) policies. Please join Schools Beyond Screens and sign our petition! https://papa.fournorms.com/campaigns/schools-beyond-screens-lausd-reduce-lausd-s-reliance-on-classroom-tech
My friend, I'm an elementary school teacher with a master's degree in Learning and Technology, and my students' classroom experience is almost entirely unplugged. I'm intensely picky about the learning tools I provide, so when I do have them use their Chromebooks (and don't get me started on those pieces of busted-ass shit (I have feelings)), web monitoring and limiting software is crucial. Being able to see their screens, shut them down, redirect them, or restrict them to a pre-approved domain - like Chrome Music Lab during free time, or PebbleGo for animal research - is the epitome of micromanagement and a pain in the ass, but it's the only way I've found to keep control over what's going on at their desks. Also, Ctrl+Shift+T reopens closed browser tabs. That's a fun tool to have in your back pocket.
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