But I never suggested any of those statements you are making. What I was referring to is that Google's "product" is offered free to the user. What you refer t

But I never suggested any of those statements you are making. What I was referring to is that Google's "product" is offered free to the user. What you refer to highlights the importance of the question: if their "product" is not free to produce, then why don't they charge users for it? No matter how well Google delivers your search results and email, if they cannot serve ads, they are in trouble. They have hundreds of millions of loyal users of these websites, but Google does not ask users for money. If they did, would you pay?