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FWIW, the Ads org is about 8000 employees (not counting sales), out of 80000 total at Google. Cloud is about 25000 (of which about 4000 are sales and supporting

FWIW, the Ads org is about 8000 employees (not counting sales), out of 80000 total at Google. Cloud is about 25000 (of which about 4000 are sales and supporting GTM functions). There's MUCH more going on at Google than ads... and that doesn't count the enormous teams working on things like Android, Chrome, Maps, and Youtube.

Rafuino 8y ago
Uhh... ultimately Android, Chrome, Maps, and Youtube are all about siphoning more data on you and delivering more ads
- abcd_f 8y ago
  Let's not forget GA, Fonts, DNS and CDN services.
  - jeltz 8y ago
    And the free version Google Mail, ReCAPCTHA and Google Fiber, plus many of their other services.
justincormack 8y ago
85% of revenue is directly attributable to advertising. Its an ad company that would like not to be.