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I mean, the trend is downwards... If you take the anomaly of 2020-2021 into account [0] Also, revenue is not down. Growth is. Apparently, we live in this stupi

• sokoloff 4y ago
  You cited Alphabet revenue, not advertising or YouTube revenue. > Google’s parent company, reported $59 billion in advertising revenue for the fourth quarter, a decrease of 3.6% from the same period in 2021. Those results marked the second time ad sales fell since Google became a publicly traded company in 2004. > Google’s video platform, YouTube, recorded a second straight quarter of declining revenue for the three months through Dec. 31, with sales retreating 7.8% from the year-earlier period to $8 billion. Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/alphabet-google-googl-q4-earnings-report-2022-11675306621 https://www.wsj.com/articles/alphabet-google-googl-q4-earnin...
  • manuelabeledo 4y ago
    > You cited Alphabet revenue, not advertising or YouTube revenue. Because you previously said: > Alphabet is absolutely posting troublesome trends in their revenue reports. Essentially you are telling me that if revenue as a whole goes up, but not in some divisions, that makes sense of layoffs across all divisions.
    • sokoloff 4y ago
      Yes, I then cited the troublesome figures in those reports in the literal next words.