Both companies have questionably trustworthy executives, aggressive expansions, and a cloud computing platform. To me, the biggest difference is Google's bigge

Both companies have questionably trustworthy executives, aggressive expansions, and a cloud computing platform. To me, the biggest difference is Google's biggest successes (Search, Gmail, and Android) come from giving something for free in order to increase ad revenue. Amazon's biggest successes (Amazon.com, AWS) come from selling things to me and profiting from the margin.