Suggestions that Google's position in the marketplace was already slipping due to competition. > Yet recent developments have demonstrated that even Google isn

Suggestions 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.