Google's Page Emphasizes Strange Mix of Moon Shots and Enterprise Products

In a snapshot of the competing pressures on Google as a large and lucrative Internet business whose revenue nevertheless comes primarily from its original search business, CEO Larry Page emphasized the importance of the big bets on radical innovation for the future of the company while also highlighting the company's quieter play for the un-sexy enterprise side of the industry.

In a snapshot of the competing pressures on Google as a large and lucrative Internet business whose revenue nevertheless comes primarily from its original search business, CEO Larry Page emphasized the importance of the big bets on radical innovation for the future of the company while also highlighting the company’s quieter play for the un-sexy enterprise side of the industry.

Page defined his role on a quarterly call with investors as encouraging the company to invest in bold, seemingly “speculative products.”

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