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I would disagree that Google's core product is a combination. It's just advertising. Everything else leads to that: search, profiling, Chrome, Android, everyth
by coob 15y ago
I would disagree that Google's core product is a combination. It's just advertising.
Everything else leads to that: search, profiling, Chrome, Android, everything.
- tomelders 15y agoIt's all much of a muchness, but at the very least, Google's tracking and profiling capabilities are definitely a USP.
- bad_user 15y agoYou're confusing "product" with "revenue model". Google's core product is advertising in the same way Microsoft's core product is selling CDs.
- coob 15y agoIf you're giving it away for free, it's not a product. The product is the advertising. It's the only significant thing they sell.
- Kylekramer 15y agoAre NBC and New York Times advertising companies? Does that make Steve Carell and Maureen Dowd advertisers? If you break it down by revenue, yes, but clearly there is much more going on than "Google is an advertising company".
- coob 15y agoNBC's customers are advertisers. The product they are selling is viewer's eyeballs. NYT is different as they are still selling a newspaper.
- fpgeek 15y ago> NYT is different as they are still selling a newspaper Not really. As I understand it, ads are where newspapers and magazines make their money. The subscription fee is nice, but it is as much (or more) about qualifying their readers for advertisers as it is for the income. Take a look at the recent complaints about iOS magazine subscriptions including ads, for example.