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Seems like Google can't build other products to generate revenue, so its doubling down on advertising
by hewrin10 6y ago
Seems like Google can't build other products to generate revenue, so its doubling down on advertising
- cyberpsybin 6y agoGoogle is an ad company. Not a software company.
- throwaway3699 6y agoAnd AT&T was just a phone company that invented transistors.
- wzdd 6y agoAT&T, as Bell Labs, was a phone company that created the first working version of the transistor, a concept invented and patented by Julius Lilienfeld twenty years earlier.
- throwaway3699 6y agoBut they were at the time, a technology company. Technology isn't defined by silicon and code, but by the fact that a company grows by inventing new things. Google may be on track to becoming an advertising company, but they seem damn resistant to the idea given how many of their new businesses they're burning through to find new revenue.
- ladyanita22 6y agoIt's a technology company. Tech companies have been doing much more than just software for long
- finiteseries 6y agoQuite misleading, one only needs to expand the FAANG label to see Facebook and Google the odd ones out.
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- simonh 6y ago10% time was an interesting idea, but have any valuable revenue generating products ever actually come out of it?
- throwaway3699 6y ago20% time is mostly used for side projects which aren't about coding or products anymore. But back in the day most new things Google was making came out of it.
- vmsp 6y agoGmail, no? G Suite brings revenue.