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I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Are you suggesting they're making more money off of Workspace than they are from ads from search? Because that ar
by cableshaft 5y ago
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Are you suggesting they're making more money off of Workspace than they are from ads from search? Because that article says otherwise (said search ads makes 57% of Alphabet's -- Google's parent company -- total revenue)
Looks like Google Cloud (which includes Google Workspaces) is still losing money overall, not gaining money:
"Google’s public cloud has been chasing competing services from Amazon and Microsoft for so long, you might think it would be getting winded. But the critical Alphabet division keeps on keeping on, yesterday reporting revenues of more than $5.5 billion for the fourth quarter. That was the good news. The bad news was that Google Cloud accrued operating losses worth $890 million at the same time."
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/02/with-a-22b-run-rate-does-it-matter-if-google-cloud-still-loses-money/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/02/with-a-22b-run-rate-does-i...
Assuming they have that revenue every quarter, that still only means $18 billion of revenue per year, which is a tiny fraction of search, and barely more than they give Apple just to keep being the default search engine.