Definitely not. This might be revisionist or not correct, but my impression is that Google after Eric Schmidt pivoted from seeing ads as the way to keep the lig

Definitely not. This might be revisionist or not correct, but my impression is that Google after Eric Schmidt pivoted from seeing ads as the way to keep the lights on to ads being the core of the business with brief forays into other products/technologies that were analogous to dipping your toe in the water. They’ve jumped in feet first on very few ventures outside of their core business (ad tech) but they still have this air of innovation despite not actually contributing meaningfully to much of anything.