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Google has a deep addiction to AdWords revenue which makes for a significant disadvantage. Nomatter how good their technology, they will struggle internally wit
by lowkey 2y ago
Google has a deep addiction to AdWords revenue which makes for a significant disadvantage. Nomatter how good their technology, they will struggle internally with deploying it at scale because that would risk their cash cow. Innovator’s dilemma.
- frankacter 2y agoGoogle Cloud and cloud services generated almost 9.57 billion. That's up 28% from prior: https://www.crn.com/news/networking/2024/google-cloud-posts-28-percent-revenue-jump-in-q1-2024-thanks-to-ai-says-ceo https://www.crn.com/news/networking/2024/google-cloud-posts-... They are embedding their models not only widely across their platforms suite of internal products and devices, but also computationally via API for 3rd party development. Those are all free from any perceived golden handcuffs that AdWords would impose.
- damsalor 2y agoYea, well. I still think there is a conflict of interest if you sell propaganda
- lowkey 2y agoAs of 2020, AdWords represented over 80% of all Google revenue [1] while in 2021 7% of Google’s revenue came from cloud [2]. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/how-does-google-make-money-advertising-business-breakdown-.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/how-does-google-make-money-a...? [2] https://aag-it.com/the-latest-cloud-computing-statistics/?t https://aag-it.com/the-latest-cloud-computing-statistics/?t