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I mean you really can't argue that Google's attempts to move away from relying on ad revenue for most of its earnings have been successful
by notfromhere 8y ago
I mean you really can't argue that Google's attempts to move away from relying on ad revenue for most of its earnings have been successful
- karpodiem 8y ago"The bulk of Google’s $110.8 billion revenue in 2017 came from its proprietary advertising service, Google AdWords." https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/business-google.asp https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020515/busin...
- glenrivard 8y agoYes but not following how that relates to "poorly managed"? I mean they are in all of history the fastest to a $100B market cap and since started in 1998 it was right at the .com bust. Then the fastest to $200B. Does that not take good management?
- someguydave 8y agoManaging not to screw up their de facto monopoly on search/ad placement is not the same as managing to do something else highly profitably
- glenrivard 8y agoYouTube has over a billion hours consumed a day. That is not search. Actually it is now the #2 most popular web site. So they have both the #1 and #2 most popular sites now. Heck they are rolling out the first robot taxi service in Arizona later this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites