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I agree with your larger point but you exaggerate too much calling it a single-product company. Here's a revenue pie chart https://i0.wp.com/fourweekmba.com/wp-
by guelo 4y ago
I agree with your larger point but you exaggerate too much calling it a single-product company. Here's a revenue pie chart https://i0.wp.com/fourweekmba.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/google-revenue-breakdown.png?resize=1024%2C772&ssl=1 https://i0.wp.com/fourweekmba.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10...
Search is 58% of revenue but I'd still call it at least a 4 product company with the "other" products contributing a decent 11%.
- BugsJustFindMe 4y agoAds is 80% of all revenue on your chart (search ads + network ads + youtube ads). If you want, you can stretch their products to ads, cloud, and play store. But ads are still 80% of the whole pie. More if one accepts that some percentage of youtube subscribers are only paying to get rid of ads.
- guelo 4y agoI would consider Youtube and Search and AdSense as completely separate giant businesses.
- alostpuppy 4y agoThey all were at one point.
- mLuby 4y agoImagine if they can't sell ads. How are they making money? I don't think subscriptions, pay per use, or referral fees would work.
- rippercushions 4y agoThey're different because the funnels are different. If Bing were to eviscerate Google Search overnight, YouTube and AdSense (other companies showing Google ads on their pages) will still continue to draw in the clicks and the eyeballs.
- smcin 4y agoNo. If Bing eviscerated Google Search, then MSFT could profitably serve and sell ads on video content, so MSFT/Bing would immediately want to set up a video site, and lure content creators off YouTube.
- wpietri 4y agoAnd I would add that the non-ads businesses listed there are money-losers. Their cloud stuff is still in the red, and things like Android and Chrome and Maps are basically about ensuring that there are places they can put ads.