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>It boggles the mind that an advertising company is the most important company in the world >I don't trust Google at all I'm sure that you would prefer that a
by bitmapbrother 11y ago
>It boggles the mind that an advertising company is the most important company in the world
>I don't trust Google at all
I'm sure that you would prefer that a maker of phone trinkets to have the label as the most important company in the world, but Google is much more than just a "advertising company".
- ksk 11y agoIf 90% (that was the figure when I last looked at them a year back), or at the very least an overwhelmingly large percentage of your revenue comes from advertising, you're an advertising company.
- bitmapbrother 11y agoIn that case, Apple is just a smartphone company and Microsoft is just an enterprise software company. I understand your motive to label Google as just an advertising company, but just because their monetization strategy is the result of being the best search engine company on the planet doesn't mean you need to belittle their accomplishments. Additionally, since Apple makes the majority of their money from selling phones it doesn't negate the fact that they were also a "advertising" company up until the day the realized it was a failed venture and wasn't worth sinking more time and resources into. Regardless of Apple's pro-user rhetoric they did exactly what Google did, but were just very unsuccessful at it.