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Other than the clickbait headline, does this paywalled article add anything not covered in previous discussions of the antitrust investigation of Google?
by leereeves 7y ago
Other than the clickbait headline, does this paywalled article add anything not covered in previous discussions of the antitrust investigation of Google?
- shakna 7y agoSuggestions that Google's position in the marketplace was already slipping due to competition. > Yet recent developments have demonstrated that even Google isn’t invulnerable. Alphabet’s most recent quarterly results showed a significant—and surprising—slowdown in Google’s ad business. They suggest Amazon is eating into the advert industry, and it's hurting Google in a big way, and that AWS and Azure are burning them on the cloud front. > And Google trails both Amazon and Microsoft by a wide margin in the fast-growing market for cloud computing services.
- dingaling 7y ago”showed a significant—and surprising—slowdown in Google’s ad business." Cleverly written by the WSJ to be misleading. It was actually a slowdown in the growth of their ad revenue. They still made more $ than previous period.