Steve Ballmer

Google will turn out to be a one-hit wonder, failing to build major businesses beyond search.

“The hottest company right now — the one nobody thinks can do any wrong — may just be a one-hit wonder.”

Said on

12 May 2005 · Speech at Stanford University, as reported by BusinessWeek

Source

Google a One Hit Wonder, Muses Ballmer · John Battelle's Search Blog

Should come true

No date given

How sure they sounded

may just be

Categories

Technology

Importance

2 of 5 · About the long-term trajectory of one major tech company and Microsoft's chief rival.

Outcome

Unresolvable

Ballmer said Google "may just be" a one-hit wonder. That is a possibility, not a forecast, so under the hedge rule it is unresolvable. (For the record, Google went on to build Android, YouTube and Google Cloud.)

Evidence:

• https://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/05/google_a_one_hit_wonder_muses_ballmer
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.