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Past performance means nothing.

Intel was also growing fast until it didn't. We all know why.

Especially because Google has exactly one revenue source. MSFT and other companies are at least somewhat diversified. But Google is incredible vulnerable right now.

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Past performance does mean that you have a larger bar to cross before you can claim the company is dying.

And yes OpenAI is the trend right now but the jury is still out whether it will augment search or replace it.

IBM is still “alive” in a walking dead zombie type of way.

IBM has more employees than Google. It might only make a quarter of Google's revenue, but that's still a lot of money. That's a big zombie.

> Especially because Google has exactly one revenue source.

Google is an advertising company that just happens to have a lot of engineers on its payroll.

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