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It's not just Search, YouTube has very good earnings too. But yes, almost all ads, at really fucking good margins.

• bugBunny 5y ago
  They did not build YouTube by their knowledge, they acquired competition company. They had Google videos back at that time.
  • setr 5y ago
    Pretty much all innovation large companies do is through acquisition. It’s much faster and risk-free than doing it yourself, from scratch.
    • pydry 5y ago
      They came up with Google Glass and Google Wave by themselves :)