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> Microsoft? Major ISPs and wireless carriers? These are physical businesses, not internet companies. Bing has ads. Twitter has ads. Reddit has ads. Yahoo! h

• Nextgrid 8y ago
  How is Microsoft a physical business? They provide services delivered online, just like Facebook, Google, etc does. > Yahoo! had ads since 1990s. Twitter has ads. Reddit has ads. And yet seems like Reddit is the only one doing somewhat good (and even then the community is pissed off and rightfully so, and without the community they'd suffer the same fate as the two former ones).
  • krn 8y ago
    > How is Microsoft a physical business? A lot of its income comes from licensing Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, which are physical products. And where Microsoft competes with Google directly, it often shows ads just like Google does[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Ads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Ads
    • jakear 8y ago
      O365 however does not, in contrast with Google Docs.