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Probably but there’s likely a lot of truth in it. What else does Google have other than search ads?
by gigatexal 7y ago
Probably but there’s likely a lot of truth in it. What else does Google have other than search ads?
- devin 7y agoflights, photos, maps, shopping, and a dozen other things?
- dlkf 7y agoWhich one of the examples you have listed can exist without SOTA search?
- oblio 7y agoSOTA = ?
- abj 7y agoSOTA means "state of the art"
- devin 7y agoThey all can exist without it, and they all benefit from it. I see your aim in singling out shopping, but let’s not pretend that other services don’t provide signal to influencing the outcomes on shopping or flight purchase or whatever.
- cmcaine 7y agoGood search is a huge engineering challenge and nowhere-near solved. Google's continued dominance is what makes their ad space valuable. If I were google, I would keep investing in improving search, and that would obviously include hiring machine learning and AI experts.
- gigatexal 7y agoI meant as in search revenue: something like 90% of revenue is from ad sales or sales around search