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But this presume all of Google's revenue are from search ads, this might have been more accurate in 2007 when the article was written but now with youtube, andr

by awa 16y ago

But this presume all of Google's revenue are from search ads, this might have been more accurate in 2007 when the article was written but now with youtube, android and gmail this is not that correct. Also, note google market cap has remained static or dropped during this period. The stock market loves growth and Google was one of the wonder kids on the block, Apple is new one and Google is becoming an laggard in terms of growth and the stock price and market cap growth reflects that.

cryptoz 16y ago
Google is seeing 200,000 new Android activations every day (or, the entire population of Canada every five months or so). This November, Google is releasing a new Operating System. How can you possibly say that Google is becoming "laggard in terms of growth"? AND given that if Apple grows, Google grows (more iPhones = more Google revenue through iPhone search ads), it seems clear to me that Google is not slowing down at all but is in fact geared to continue growing immensely.
- SoftwareMaven 16y ago
  How much revenue is Google getting from these 200k Android activations? How much will it get from GoogleOS? The growth being referred to is revenue growth. Sun showed very well that giving away everything is not the path to happy shareholders. I believe Google is capable of continued revenue growth, but now they are going to have to fight for it like everybody else. I actually think their one engineer for every non-engineer hire is going to hurt them in those efforts, though.
  - cryptoz 16y ago
    > Sun showed very well that giving away everything is not the path to happy shareholders. Well, Google has shown that giving away everything does lead to happy shareholders. Google only sells one thing: ads. (Okay, they sell a bit of hardware here and there to large enterprises, but they don't make a ton of money from that from what I understand). I don't know how much revenue Google gets from Android activations nor do I know how much they will get from Chrome OS. I assume that they get a bit from each sale, but I'd bet that amount is very small compared to the ad clicks once the user starts searching on the device.
    - awa 16y ago
      Well, they have also tried to make revenue in other ways but haven't done well with Google checkout and Google Apps for Enterprise, if they are so happy with ads they wouldn't be doing Google Apps which is basically not their main forte (enterprise customers, actual support, non-free web apps) Dependence on ads for money is like the Google's Achilles heel right now.
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by awa 16y ago

cryptoz 16y ago

Google is seeing 200,000 new Android activations every day (or, the entire population of Canada every five months or so). This November, Google is releasing a new Operating System. How can you possibly say that Google is becoming "laggard in terms of growth"? AND given that if Apple grows, Google grows (more iPhones = more Google revenue through iPhone search ads), it seems clear to me that Google is not slowing down at all but is in fact geared to continue growing immensely.

SoftwareMaven 16y ago
How much revenue is Google getting from these 200k Android activations? How much will it get from GoogleOS? The growth being referred to is revenue growth. Sun showed very well that giving away everything is not the path to happy shareholders. I believe Google is capable of continued revenue growth, but now they are going to have to fight for it like everybody else. I actually think their one engineer for every non-engineer hire is going to hurt them in those efforts, though.
- cryptoz 16y ago
  > Sun showed very well that giving away everything is not the path to happy shareholders. Well, Google has shown that giving away everything does lead to happy shareholders. Google only sells one thing: ads. (Okay, they sell a bit of hardware here and there to large enterprises, but they don't make a ton of money from that from what I understand). I don't know how much revenue Google gets from Android activations nor do I know how much they will get from Chrome OS. I assume that they get a bit from each sale, but I'd bet that amount is very small compared to the ad clicks once the user starts searching on the device.
  - awa 16y ago
    Well, they have also tried to make revenue in other ways but haven't done well with Google checkout and Google Apps for Enterprise, if they are so happy with ads they wouldn't be doing Google Apps which is basically not their main forte (enterprise customers, actual support, non-free web apps) Dependence on ads for money is like the Google's Achilles heel right now.
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