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Google's income stream from advertising is not as vulnerable as Yahoo's home page for the internet model as far as I know.

joering2 9y ago
Not AS vulnerable but in the near future when you search thru voice commands and hear results back, all those google ads that your eyes scan can be thrown out of window. Here is relevant read: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/27/alphabet-investors-voice-search-making-money-at-google-ceo-sundar-pichai.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/27/alphabet-investors-voice-sea...
- brucephillips 9y ago
  For how many of your daily searches would you prefer to use voice? Voice has much higher latency and lower bandwidth than text/vision.
- stevenwoo 9y ago
  Interesting. To Google's credit, they jumped on mobile early when they realized where traffic was trending.
  - scarface74 9y ago
    And they admitted that they make less on mobile because they have to pay companies like Apple to be the default search engine.....
- InitialLastName 9y ago
  Then those voice commands start returning "affiliate" responses. Amazon's got this figured out. Some significant portion of voice commands are: -User sees they've run out of widgets -User says "Alexa, order some widgets" Having the ability to drive that traffic to one store or another is a big advantage that stores will pay for.
maxxxxx 9y ago
They still haven't demonstrated that they can make significant money on anything other than advertising. They do a lot of stuff but nothing really turns into a profitable business. Compare that to Microsoft who have shown over decades many times an ability to get into new lines of business profitably.
- kyrra 9y ago
  https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204418000007/goog10-kq42017.htm https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204418... Take a look at Google's earnings. in 2017 Google made $95 billion from ads, and $14.2 billion from "other revenue". Which is classified as: Other Revenue: Apps, in-app purchases, and digital content in the Google Play store; Google Cloud offerings; and Hardware. So Google is making money from other places, just not near as much as Ads yet.
  - cambalache 9y ago
    Around 13% of total revenue then, growing year on year, that's nice. I would like to know what percentage of net profit is contributed by that fraction.
    - maxxxxx 9y ago
      It's very possible that they produce a lot of revenue but no profit like Uber. On the other hand I would assume Google Cloud is making money since Azura and AWS are profitable for MS and Amazon.
      - _asummers 9y ago
        Google has said that it's (at least) a billion per quarter. [0] [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/01/google-cloud-revenue-passes-1-billion-per-quarter.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/01/google-cloud-revenue-passes-...
        fred256 9y ago
question_that 9y ago
Google is in the process of repulsing half the country with illegal hiring practices and arbitrary censorship, I wouldn't bank on ineffective ads keeping the company afloat for another decade.

joering2 9y ago

Not AS vulnerable but in the near future when you search thru voice commands and hear results back, all those google ads that your eyes scan can be thrown out of window. Here is relevant read: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/27/alphabet-investors-voice-search-making-money-at-google-ceo-sundar-pichai.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/27/alphabet-investors-voice-sea...

brucephillips 9y ago
For how many of your daily searches would you prefer to use voice? Voice has much higher latency and lower bandwidth than text/vision.
stevenwoo 9y ago
Interesting. To Google's credit, they jumped on mobile early when they realized where traffic was trending.
- scarface74 9y ago
  And they admitted that they make less on mobile because they have to pay companies like Apple to be the default search engine.....
InitialLastName 9y ago
Then those voice commands start returning "affiliate" responses. Amazon's got this figured out. Some significant portion of voice commands are: -User sees they've run out of widgets -User says "Alexa, order some widgets" Having the ability to drive that traffic to one store or another is a big advantage that stores will pay for.

maxxxxx 9y ago

They still haven't demonstrated that they can make significant money on anything other than advertising. They do a lot of stuff but nothing really turns into a profitable business. Compare that to Microsoft who have shown over decades many times an ability to get into new lines of business profitably.

kyrra 9y ago
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204418000007/goog10-kq42017.htm https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204418... Take a look at Google's earnings. in 2017 Google made $95 billion from ads, and $14.2 billion from "other revenue". Which is classified as: Other Revenue: Apps, in-app purchases, and digital content in the Google Play store; Google Cloud offerings; and Hardware. So Google is making money from other places, just not near as much as Ads yet.
- cambalache 9y ago
  Around 13% of total revenue then, growing year on year, that's nice. I would like to know what percentage of net profit is contributed by that fraction.
  - maxxxxx 9y ago
    It's very possible that they produce a lot of revenue but no profit like Uber. On the other hand I would assume Google Cloud is making money since Azura and AWS are profitable for MS and Amazon.
    - _asummers 9y ago
      Google has said that it's (at least) a billion per quarter. [0] [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/01/google-cloud-revenue-passes-1-billion-per-quarter.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/01/google-cloud-revenue-passes-...
      - fred256 9y ago

question_that 9y ago

Google is in the process of repulsing half the country with illegal hiring practices and arbitrary censorship, I wouldn't bank on ineffective ads keeping the company afloat for another decade.