Google's Biggest Threat Is Google

"Google 'should stand for a beauty, technological purity of innovation and things that are important to people,' he said. It should also be a trusted brand, he said."<p>I love this statement, I just hope Google means it. I have a feeling Page does, as you never hear other big tech CEOs speak like this, but the "innovation" and "trusted brand" bits are debatable. Yes, Google is extremely innovative, but they show time and time again they're not above copycatting others' innovations, a concerning thing especially for startups. If you reach a point, it's either sell to Google or Google will enter the market and become your competitor (Dropbox is next up apparently). That's neither innovative or trusted.

This is arrogant statement. It assumes that CEO's vision and leadership is great but just that inside politics make it not so great.<p>Google's biggest threats are Apple (mobile front), Facebook (social front), Amazon (cloud front), and Microsoft (search front).<p>EDIT: of course I will be downvoted. But this is my honest opinion I would like to somebody explain me why think this not an arrogant statement.

Larry Page is right: internal problems dominate large companies.<p>Microsoft is more "mature" corporation and they have much more severe internal problems.

Google's Biggest Threat Is Google failing to innovate. They're still a one-trick pony after all these years.