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What Google has made money on are the ads that show up next to the search results. That's their way of "charging" for search if you like. Similarly for iCloud
by belfalas 2y ago
What Google has made money on are the ads that show up next to the search results. That's their way of "charging" for search if you like.
Similarly for iCloud Drive / Dropbox, what they charge you for is storage, not the ability to look things up.
Search is a feature of the index / overall data catalog.
- profsummergig 2y agoFair point. So in this conceptualization, Google's "product" is advertising, and search is a feature that supports advertising.
- belfalas 2y agoThat's right. :)