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How much of Google's total revenue comes from iPhone searches that Siri would possibly redirect? Let's not forget that Google gets revenue from a great number o
by tensor 15y ago
How much of Google's total revenue comes from iPhone searches that Siri would possibly redirect? Let's not forget that Google gets revenue from a great number of advertising markets.
They bought DoubleClick, YouTube, they have their own AdWords program. There is also Google mobile ads for both mobile versions of websites as well as Android. Android itself represents something like 40% of the mobile market.
Even on the iPhone itself, what does Siri redirect away from google? Restaurant queries. Some question answering queries. Appointments, playing music, setting timers, sending emails, none of those are relevant to this argument. The remaining queries all still go to Google and google gets paid for these either from it's API usage or from later ad impressions.
This argument was poor and full of hyperbole when it first appeared in the scene and it surprises me to see it continuing to make the rounds.