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They have all kinds of other businesses besides the ad (which is a large percentage of their revenue). Cloud services, maps, email for work. Very soon they will
by imaginenore 11y ago
They have all kinds of other businesses besides the ad (which is a large percentage of their revenue). Cloud services, maps, email for work. Very soon they will be selling self driving car systems, which is going to be huge. Even if they made zero through ads, being a search engine, they can charge for positioning. Or they can start their own businesses in literally any area, and drive all the traffic they want to them.
- Animats 11y agoAds are still about 94% of Google's revenue.
- imaginenore 11y agoAnd as I said, if the ads die, they will charge for positioning in the search results. I'm also pretty sure there are many ways to get around adblock, like rendering the ads on the server instead of a script tag.