I agree and mostly disagree with the article. Youtube was a good buy. Google bought a sat-imaging company that was a good buy. GSuite is good. Android and the Pixel are pretty okay. Google Scholar is dope. There are a lot of things Google is doing well. Google is full and smart people and they have done a lot of good stuff.

They also have struck out a lot on new technology ventures as the article mentions.

I like what Google is doing with their "X, moonshot factory" but I think, again, there are examples of picking strange things to sink a lot of money into (project Loon for instance).

But Google is hardly alone... MS, Yahoo, Facebook, etc. all have their venture failures to counter-balance successes.

Overall I think Google is a well run company and generally knows what they are doing on the balance.

Meanwhile,the article authors works at Zdnet... just saying.