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Thanks for the correction. But yeah, that merely proves my point. If click-throughs started to drop, what other money making products does Google have in its

Thanks for the correction. But yeah, that merely proves my point. If click-throughs started to drop, what other money making products does Google have in its portfolio? (don't get me wrong, I love and use Google products as much as the next fella, but I also understand that their search/ad revenue is what's subsidizing my use of Google Earth or Picassa or whatever)

nostrademons 17y ago
There're some, but if they're not in the 10-K I'm not allowed to comment on the profitability of other products.
- elblanco 17y ago
  Well, it's not hard to just go through the list of products Google offers, and subtract the ones that don't have a business model around them. For example, Google Earth does some actual business business, and probably makes a bit of cash selling pro versions and geospatial servers and services (haven't looked at the 10-k to be honest). Orkut, Sites, Knol, Chat, Wave, Scholar, etc. does not. Some things like SketchUp are designed as loss leaders like Search to provide content to things that might have a decent revenue stream like Google Earth (except most of the paying users are probably not using the Sketchup Data). But other, more expensive things like Chrome and Android have a link to making money that's very tenuous at best. And we also already know that Search Ads account for 99% of Google's revenue stream. Subtract that out and we have a very good idea of where Google's other offerings are.