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All three products you mention produce a ton of personal data/ monetary value for Google's ad machine.

gretch 4y ago
Parent comment was about 'successful project' It's also extremely reductive to just boil everything down into 'ads'. Like for example, if Bing somehow over took Google's search, YT would still be making money. That's an important part of the company.
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- nowherebeen 4y ago
  > YT would still be making money You are aware how YT makes money, right?
  - gretch 4y ago
    Yes they make money through ads (but also through Premium btw) The point is though, that if Search Ads stop making money, why would YT ads also stop making money? You're speaking as if society is going to stop having Ads altogether. The same argument applied to e.g. Apple would be like "Apple makes all it's money through HARDWARE, since iPhone and Mac and wearables are all HARDWARE, they only have 1 revenue stream". Which is unsophisticated and kinda dumb
    - nowherebeen 4y ago
      No. For your argument to be correct, I would have to argue that Google makes all its money through SOFTWARE. One is a BUSINESS MODEL, the other is a product category. You are confusing the two. It seems unsophisticated because it is unsophisticated. Take away the ads model and you don't have a business. It's that simple. I am not against the ads model, because it's business at the end of the day. But to think it's anything more than that is kinda dumb too. All products need to make money. That's how employees get paid 200-500k salaries. You might not like it, but Google functions as a whole, not individual products. No CEO is going to look at YouTube and think of it as a separate business. It may be able to function as one, but he/she is always thinking how it can help the other products under the company. You seem to have this fascination with Google products. I would argue you are not business-minded at all. Would you consider yourself a Google fan boy? On a last note, I would appreciate it if you argue on the merits of the argument instead of calling other people kinda dumb. It's doesn't convince me one bit about your logic and shows the limit of your reasoning skills. The cap locks also don't help. It's immature.

Parent comment was about 'successful project' It's also extremely reductive to just boil everything down into 'ads'. Like for example, if Bing somehow over took Google's search, YT would still be making money. That's an important part of the company.

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nowherebeen 4y ago
> YT would still be making money You are aware how YT makes money, right?
- gretch 4y ago
  Yes they make money through ads (but also through Premium btw) The point is though, that if Search Ads stop making money, why would YT ads also stop making money? You're speaking as if society is going to stop having Ads altogether. The same argument applied to e.g. Apple would be like "Apple makes all it's money through HARDWARE, since iPhone and Mac and wearables are all HARDWARE, they only have 1 revenue stream". Which is unsophisticated and kinda dumb
  - nowherebeen 4y ago
    No. For your argument to be correct, I would have to argue that Google makes all its money through SOFTWARE. One is a BUSINESS MODEL, the other is a product category. You are confusing the two. It seems unsophisticated because it is unsophisticated. Take away the ads model and you don't have a business. It's that simple. I am not against the ads model, because it's business at the end of the day. But to think it's anything more than that is kinda dumb too. All products need to make money. That's how employees get paid 200-500k salaries. You might not like it, but Google functions as a whole, not individual products. No CEO is going to look at YouTube and think of it as a separate business. It may be able to function as one, but he/she is always thinking how it can help the other products under the company. You seem to have this fascination with Google products. I would argue you are not business-minded at all. Would you consider yourself a Google fan boy? On a last note, I would appreciate it if you argue on the merits of the argument instead of calling other people kinda dumb. It's doesn't convince me one bit about your logic and shows the limit of your reasoning skills. The cap locks also don't help. It's immature.