Does anybody even know what the core of their business is? Are they a search engine? Are they some kind of media company? An ad agency? What is that they do? I

Does anybody even know what the core of their business is? Are they a search engine? Are they some kind of media company? An ad agency? What is that they do? I think in an interesting way, this stems from their origins. They started out as a directory for the web. At the time, few, if any, knew what that meant.[0] And so it remains on up to today. [0]Meaning, sure we could understand HTML and the protocols involved, but what were web pages, what sort of media were they meant to contain? What sort of things could they make possible?