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I know you're just being satirical, but this kinds of arguments are brought up quite frequently even in serious debates. But the reality is that: 1. Ads depe
by summerlight 6y ago
I know you're just being satirical, but this kinds of arguments are brought up quite frequently even in serious debates. But the reality is that:
1. Ads depends on its cloud and core infrastructures to run its system.
2. Majority of its revenue directly comes from owned and operated properties, such as Search and YouTube Ads.
3. Chrome and Android have been key strategical components for being independent from other platforms. Google Ads won't be profitable as is if other OS/browser had 100% market dominance.
If you includes all of them, I think it's more of 6~70k employees rather than 10k.
- scarmig 6y agoAds doesn't depend on GCP at all.
- suprfsat 6y agoIt just runs on the cloud
- est31 6y agoWhat stops them from running it in AWS or Azure?
- scarmig 6y agoHuge, sophisticated infra investment that trumps anything MS or Amazon have on offer. No, k8s doesn't compare, and neither MS nor Amazon even have the physical machines to handle existing ads and search traffic without a multi-year, 11-figure data center build out.
- summerlight 6y agoCloud infrastructure doesn't necessarily mean only GCP as a product, but all the computing and network resources shared across the fleet.