Google’s core product may always be search, but the company is just as serious about providing in-the-moment information to users with emerging technologies such as Google Now, self-driving cars and Glass, CEO Larry Page signaled on Thursday.

Those products, along with others such as voice-based search, may comprise risky “big bets” at the company, but Google doesn’t just want to be focused on “incremental technologies,” Page said during the company’s first-quarter earnings call.

That mindset, he went on to say, “is why we’re investing in what appear to be speculative projects.”

“Companies tend to get comfortable doing what they’ve always done with a few minor tweaks,” Page said, though he refrained from citing any of Google’s Silicon Valley competitors.

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