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Just as a quick reality check: Google has about 300m MAUs [0] and for their last quarter made 14.8b in revenue [1], which with quick-and-dirty math leads to abo
by tvladeck 13y ago
Just as a quick reality check: Google has about 300m MAUs [0] and for their last quarter made 14.8b in revenue [1], which with quick-and-dirty math leads to about $14.6/user/month
[0] http://marketingland.com/google-hits-300-million-active-monthly-in-stream-users-540-million-across-google-63354 http://marketingland.com/google-hits-300-million-active-mont...
[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGOOG&fstype=ii&ei=sJmTUqjvHIKSiQLSVw https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGOOG&fstype=ii&ei=...
- mjhagen 13y ago$15/m for an actual Google+ service where I'm guaranteed that I'm not being tracked, and I'd get no ads and all my personal data is completely safe and encrypted doesn't sound that bad.
- Pxtl 13y agoYes, but Google could still collect ad revenue on non-tracked users, they would just be restricted to the same kind of ads they use to target non-logged-in browsers. Obviously the ads within Gmail would be worthless on an untracked user - nix those. But the ads on the Google search pages? On sites that host AdSense (or whatever they call it now)? They would still have tremendous value. I do wonder if this wouldn't break Google Now though.
- Brakenshire 13y agoYou've rather blatantly cherry-picked those figures, why would you use the figure for 300m in-stream Google+ users, rather than the 540m figure? Even that is an underestimate, because Google serves ads to many more people than directly use its services.