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> Google's business model is fundamentally based on data mining You see, the point is, it doesn’t have to be.
by dvfjsdhgfv 9y ago
> Google's business model is fundamentally based on data mining
You see, the point is, it doesn’t have to be.
- hn_throwaway_99 9y agoNot without being a completely different company. Google earns 90 percent of its revenue from advertising, and the amount they would be able to earn would go down significantly if they weren't able to provide highly granular targeting info to their advertisers. Saying "the point is, it doesn't have to be" is like saying "Apple doesn't have to be a designed-focused company." True, they don't have to be, but they are, and that is a huge reason they are successful.
- musage 9y ago> Not without being a completely different company. Yeah, like actually being the company they pretended to be to get their feet into all sorts of doors.