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Google might try to become the conglomerate of all forward-facing things but it is somewhat funny to see how through it all, it's their advertising revenues tha

Google might try to become the conglomerate of all forward-facing things but it is somewhat funny to see how through it all, it's their advertising revenues that form the core of the business.

fishnchips 9y ago
Which is exactly what they're trying to change - both with "conventional" offerings like Android and Cloud, as well as with what they call "moonshots".
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DanBC 9y ago
> it's their advertising revenues that form the core of the business. You'd think the advertising staff would get pretty good treatment at Google. Do they?
- euyyn 9y ago
  Why wouldn't they? All Googlers get very very good treatment.
- dekhn 9y ago
  when I worked in the ads part, it was not glamorous (as compared to search, or mobile, or social, or whatever the hot area was at the time) but I think we were treated well, and acknowledged for running a critical service that provided revenue that allowed other parts of the company to do research and development into new things. I can't speak for the entire advertising staff, of course.
sgt101 9y ago
I think it's their compute capability and massive interaction with the concerns of humanity expressed via search; in the short term that's leveraged to create advertising revenue, in the longer term who knows?
zitterbewegung 9y ago
This pattern happens more often than you think. Microsoft: They make an Operating System and Office Suite. From Microsoft Research they have labs on Quantum Computing, they have five Turing Award winners (One is Leslie Lamport) and he developed TLA+ while employed there. Facebook: A social network Funds a bunch of Deep Learning Research and NLP. Elon Musk: Helped create PayPal, now does electric cars and rockets, (Tesla, SpaceX) NVIDIA: Made graphics cards for video games. Now those same devices allow for deep learning.
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- eternauta3k 9y ago
  Bell Labs, over 1k PhDs at some point.
beambot 9y ago
Why is that surprising? Look at individuals... they work for money so that they can pursue their own ambitions. It is rare to find an individual with the luxury of pursuing their own, exact ambitions to also earn money. Kudos for Google for using their vast funds to finance their ambitions rather than just hoarding it away.

Google might try to become the conglomerate of all forward-facing things but it is somewhat funny to see how through it all, it's their advertising revenues that form the core of the business.

fishnchips 9y ago

Which is exactly what they're trying to change - both with "conventional" offerings like Android and Cloud, as well as with what they call "moonshots".

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DanBC 9y ago

> it's their advertising revenues that form the core of the business. You'd think the advertising staff would get pretty good treatment at Google. Do they?

euyyn 9y ago
Why wouldn't they? All Googlers get very very good treatment.
dekhn 9y ago
when I worked in the ads part, it was not glamorous (as compared to search, or mobile, or social, or whatever the hot area was at the time) but I think we were treated well, and acknowledged for running a critical service that provided revenue that allowed other parts of the company to do research and development into new things. I can't speak for the entire advertising staff, of course.

sgt101 9y ago

I think it's their compute capability and massive interaction with the concerns of humanity expressed via search; in the short term that's leveraged to create advertising revenue, in the longer term who knows?

zitterbewegung 9y ago

This pattern happens more often than you think. Microsoft: They make an Operating System and Office Suite. From Microsoft Research they have labs on Quantum Computing, they have five Turing Award winners (One is Leslie Lamport) and he developed TLA+ while employed there. Facebook: A social network Funds a bunch of Deep Learning Research and NLP. Elon Musk: Helped create PayPal, now does electric cars and rockets, (Tesla, SpaceX) NVIDIA: Made graphics cards for video games. Now those same devices allow for deep learning.

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eternauta3k 9y ago
Bell Labs, over 1k PhDs at some point.

beambot 9y ago

Why is that surprising? Look at individuals... they work for money so that they can pursue their own ambitions. It is rare to find an individual with the luxury of pursuing their own, exact ambitions to also earn money. Kudos for Google for using their vast funds to finance their ambitions rather than just hoarding it away.