{"id":1265,"date":"2010-08-04T11:26:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2010-08-04T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T15:45:23","slug":"google-gah-gah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/04\/google-gah-gah\/","title":{"rendered":"Google gah-gah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have to admire Microsoft for their success.&#160;<span class=\"pullquote pqRight\"> Before Bill Gates, only the government could support a business model based on selling you what you already own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>These days, though, everyone seems to be gawking at Google.  &#8220;What would Google do?&#8221;&#160; &#8220;How can we be more like Google?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It might be smarter to instead be looking at IBM.&#160; They&#8217;ve been in business an order of magnitude longer, and still rake about twice as much profit as does Google.  They&#8217;ve also successfully reinvented both their business and their culture on multiple occasions&#8230; a feat not to be dismissed lightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to admire Microsoft for their success.&#160; Before Bill Gates, only the government could support a business model based on selling you what you already own. These days, though, everyone seems to be gawking at Google. &#8220;What would Google do?&#8221;&#160; &#8220;How can we be more like Google?&#8221; It might be smarter to instead be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}