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Do you include their cloud platform in that? GAE, GCE, GKE etc? They don't really exist to show more ads, and they're becoming a larger part of their profit ev
by Intermernet 9y ago
Do you include their cloud platform in that? GAE, GCE, GKE etc?
They don't really exist to show more ads, and they're becoming a larger part of their profit every year.
What about their open source stuff? Kubernetes, Go etc?
I'll readily admit that advertising is still their primary source of revenue, but painting Google as a purely advertising company is getting less accurate every year
- nol13 9y agoWell what do you think people are running on all those GCE instances? Websites that show ads, of course!
- gaius 9y agoIn the early days of Netscape, Jim Clark said, I'm selling printing presses but first I need to teach the masses to read. It's the same strategy, like Chrome, to generally increase web usage to create indirectly more opportunities to show ads