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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, Goo
by 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.