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Your question is: > what successful product has Google created outside of advertising? The answer is a revolutionary search engine, aside of course from their

Your question is: > what successful product has Google created outside of advertising? The answer is a revolutionary search engine, aside of course from their ground breaking email product, their mobile platform that is one of the only two viable ones, the top video platform and so on. These are all very successful products. Regarding the question if these are successful does it matter their financing model is mostly based on ads? Do you think Facebook is an unsuccessful company?

scarface74 6y ago
A product is something that makes money. The search engine only makes money because of advertising. Google has spent literally billions of dollars trying to diversify and has little to show for it. Yes it matters that a company isn’t diversified. Look at Apple, when phone revenue was stagnant last quarter, they still saw one of their best quarters ever because of Macs and iPads. Over the last few years, growth has come from “wearables” and services. I wonder what would happen to advertising in the unlikely case that there was a worldwide pandemic and companies cut advertising? Google was the only big tech company to see revenue decline last quarter. During the time period that Google has existed, Apple has gone from making all of its money on Macs to... 1 Becoming the leading music retailer and music player for awhile. 2. Pivoted to become the most profitable phone maker. 3. Added tablets. 4. Cook admitted that the Watch business alone is larger in revenue than the iPod was at peak. 5. Many analyst belief that its headphone business alone is just as large as its watch business. 6. All of this and even its tiniest two segments - Mac and iPad are large enough to have a revenue that puts it in the f100. On another note, how many unsuccessful chat apps has Google had? Facebook is just a social media company at its core. But, it use to be a platform for games where a lot of its revenue came from before mobile. Facebook has four different platforms that are all successful - Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. How many failed acquisitions has Google had in social - OrKut, Blogger (languishes in obscurity but could have easily been a large platform). Google+?
- tinus_hn 6y ago
  How is Facebook making any money apart from ads? Especially on a service like WhatsApp.
  - scarface74 6y ago
    True. But why is Google the only Big tech company that saw revenue declines? How has FB major acquisitions fared compared to Google’s? Youtube is popularly believed to be break even at best and it came out in the Oracle trial during discovery that Android had only made Google $23 billion in profit from 2010-2015. At the same time Google is giving Apple billions (reportedly up to $8-$12 billion now) to be the default search engine on iOS.

scarface74 6y ago

A product is something that makes money. The search engine only makes money because of advertising. Google has spent literally billions of dollars trying to diversify and has little to show for it. Yes it matters that a company isn’t diversified. Look at Apple, when phone revenue was stagnant last quarter, they still saw one of their best quarters ever because of Macs and iPads. Over the last few years, growth has come from “wearables” and services. I wonder what would happen to advertising in the unlikely case that there was a worldwide pandemic and companies cut advertising? Google was the only big tech company to see revenue decline last quarter. During the time period that Google has existed, Apple has gone from making all of its money on Macs to... 1 Becoming the leading music retailer and music player for awhile. 2. Pivoted to become the most profitable phone maker. 3. Added tablets. 4. Cook admitted that the Watch business alone is larger in revenue than the iPod was at peak. 5. Many analyst belief that its headphone business alone is just as large as its watch business. 6. All of this and even its tiniest two segments - Mac and iPad are large enough to have a revenue that puts it in the f100. On another note, how many unsuccessful chat apps has Google had? Facebook is just a social media company at its core. But, it use to be a platform for games where a lot of its revenue came from before mobile. Facebook has four different platforms that are all successful - Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. How many failed acquisitions has Google had in social - OrKut, Blogger (languishes in obscurity but could have easily been a large platform). Google+?

tinus_hn 6y ago
How is Facebook making any money apart from ads? Especially on a service like WhatsApp.
- scarface74 6y ago
  True. But why is Google the only Big tech company that saw revenue declines? How has FB major acquisitions fared compared to Google’s? Youtube is popularly believed to be break even at best and it came out in the Oracle trial during discovery that Android had only made Google $23 billion in profit from 2010-2015. At the same time Google is giving Apple billions (reportedly up to $8-$12 billion now) to be the default search engine on iOS.