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It is also a flat out lie because the "information on every topic, in every language, at the fingertips of billions of people" is not funded by ads, ads fund go
by cblconfederate 6y ago
It is also a flat out lie because the "information on every topic, in every language, at the fingertips of billions of people" is not funded by ads, ads fund google, which keeps a 70% cut for themselves. Information is basically impossible to monetize these days unless people charge. Google does not create information, it copies/steals it.
It is difficult to conceive Google without advertising as its economic foudnation.
- tehlike 6y agoHow did you come up with "google keeps 70% to themselves" fact? Google revenue cut is around 30%, not the other way around.
- cblconfederate 6y agohttps://mediatel.co.uk/news/2016/10/04/where-did-the-money-go-guardian-buys-its-own-ad-inventory/ https://mediatel.co.uk/news/2016/10/04/where-did-the-money-g...
- tehlike 6y agoI think this is an anectode.