Raghavan said the company has been tagged with the disparaging moniker “Grandpa Google” among younger demographics who don’t see it as an interesting product.
A top Google executive testified Thursday that the company’s success is precarious and said its leadership fears their product could slide into irrelevance with younger internet users.
Raghavan downplayed Google’s dominance and described it as a company beset by competitors on all sides. Google’s lawyers showed Raghavan a 1998 article from Fortune magazine which said “Yahoo! has won the search-engine wars and is poised for much bigger things.”“Grandpa Google knows the answers and will help you with homework,” Google’s Prabhakar Raghavan said. “But when it comes to doing interesting things, they like to start elsewhere.”Raghavan, who once worked at Yahoo!, said Google spends massive amounts on research and development to try to stay ahead of the curve as technology evolves.
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