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Oh please about 97% of Google's revenues come from advertising. People need to know this.

rejschaap 13y ago
And a circus is a ticket printing company, 95% of their revenue comes from selling printed tickets. I really don't know why they still bother with the elephants and acrobatics...
- Guvante 13y ago
  Bad example, tickets are a direct thing. Ads are usually not considered a direct part of the website. For instance while most online comic sites have ads, ads are not the point. From the user perspective ads aren't the point of www.google.com, but from Google's perspective it is.
- ogreyonder 13y ago
  You... might want to reconsider that analogy. Claiming that News Corp is a media company is somewhat tenable. They sell "media" direct to consumer, among other things, and media is an end product. Claiming that Google is an ad company is, similarly, tenable: they sell ads. Showing ads is the end product. You may just have been making a joke, in which case I apologize for the lengthy response, but claiming that a circus is a ticket printing company in no way relates to either argument. Tickets are categorically not a product. Nobody would care if a circus uses tickets or stamps or facial recognition. They are a means to admittance to the end product. The show. That's why they bother with the elephants and acrobatics. Google, on the other hand, is in fact an ad company. They sell ads for the vast majority of their revenue. That's what they do. They dabble elsewhere and are expanding to new areas which is totally fine. Just look at the history of Nokia--ever heard of Nokia the paper company or Nokia the galoshes manufacturer? However, as a company that is exploding with cash from the ad business, Google has clear priorities. They maintain their current revenue and use their fantastic capital for other stuff that at the very least won't hurt that business. More likely, they invest in things that will further it by collecting your information and showing you ads. Like the Chromebook. All that said, the Scroogled campaign is silly and not an effective way to raise that issue.

And a circus is a ticket printing company, 95% of their revenue comes from selling printed tickets. I really don't know why they still bother with the elephants and acrobatics...

Guvante 13y ago
Bad example, tickets are a direct thing. Ads are usually not considered a direct part of the website. For instance while most online comic sites have ads, ads are not the point. From the user perspective ads aren't the point of www.google.com, but from Google's perspective it is.
ogreyonder 13y ago
You... might want to reconsider that analogy. Claiming that News Corp is a media company is somewhat tenable. They sell "media" direct to consumer, among other things, and media is an end product. Claiming that Google is an ad company is, similarly, tenable: they sell ads. Showing ads is the end product. You may just have been making a joke, in which case I apologize for the lengthy response, but claiming that a circus is a ticket printing company in no way relates to either argument. Tickets are categorically not a product. Nobody would care if a circus uses tickets or stamps or facial recognition. They are a means to admittance to the end product. The show. That's why they bother with the elephants and acrobatics. Google, on the other hand, is in fact an ad company. They sell ads for the vast majority of their revenue. That's what they do. They dabble elsewhere and are expanding to new areas which is totally fine. Just look at the history of Nokia--ever heard of Nokia the paper company or Nokia the galoshes manufacturer? However, as a company that is exploding with cash from the ad business, Google has clear priorities. They maintain their current revenue and use their fantastic capital for other stuff that at the very least won't hurt that business. More likely, they invest in things that will further it by collecting your information and showing you ads. Like the Chromebook. All that said, the Scroogled campaign is silly and not an effective way to raise that issue.