Business Insider - Is Larry Page asleep at the wheel? Because it sure feels like it. Facebook is conducting an all-out assault on Google. It just launched embeddable videos and a new ad network. Those businesses will compete with YouTube and Google's DoubleClick display ad business. Facebook has become a juggernaut in video lately, and this will only bolster its position. With its incredible data on users, it will be an attractive destination for video ads and display ads, weakening Google's display business. Google looks like it is basically helpless to stop Facebook. It doesn't have an answer for Facebook. It tried and failed with Google+. Google doesn't own a "stream" like Facebook's News Feed, where it can stick high-quality brand advertising right into what people are reading and doing. From the outside looking in, as Facebook gets stronger, it looks like Google is running in the wrong direction. It looks like CEO Larry Page has handed off responsibility for the company a
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