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and yet none of them make money except search advertising. it's almost all of their revenue on a percentage basis. edit: i do believe they make a bit of money

and yet none of them make money except search advertising. it's almost all of their revenue on a percentage basis. edit: i do believe they make a bit of money with youtube now, but it is still advertising. they haven't successfully SOLD anything to date.

dragonwriter 13y ago
> and yet none of them make money except search advertising. I actually think lots of them make money -- over $5 billion in non-advertising revenue in 2013 [1]-- its just they are dwarfed by the scale of the revenue from search advertising ($50 billion in 2013.) > they haven't successfully SOLD anything to date. If they haven't sold anything but advertising, they must have just conjured that $5 billion in non-advertising revenue (and that total, and the proportion of non-advertising revenue to total revenue -- has been growing every year) in 2013 out of thin air. Which, you know, would be even more impressive than selling stuff.
- clarky07 13y ago
  91% of their business is advertising, 9% is other stuff including android apps, chromecast, chromebooks, fiber, app engine. The actual number is 4.927 billion for 2013[1]. They have not really had a successful product outside of advertising. Chromecast is probably the closest thing to a success out of all the other things they do. Seeing as how they don't have a single business line over a billion, I'd consider all of them hobbies at this point for a company the size of google. Apple TV is a > 1 billion product now, and it is absolutely a hobby for Apple. Yet they have 4 different product lines that are huge businesses. Microsoft has a lot of huge business lines. Google has advertising and a bunch of hobbies. Hopefully at some point they turn into something. I'm specifically rooting for Fiber. But that doesn't mean it's true right now. It's just not. [1] http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html
  - Ellipsis753 13y ago
    Well hobbies to Google or not they're still big businesses compared to most (and most are growing). Actually having a lot of small "hobbies" seem quite a good way to diversify. Although they still make most (I think) of their profits from the main search they're clearly still making a lot from all the other things that they do. It's not like they lose money on them all or anything.
porlw 13y ago
Google is a media company, like TV or publishing. It's not like deriving income from advertising is a strange way to do business. At least Google is a bit more diverse with how they spend their money.

dragonwriter 13y ago

> and yet none of them make money except search advertising. I actually think lots of them make money -- over $5 billion in non-advertising revenue in 2013 [1]-- its just they are dwarfed by the scale of the revenue from search advertising ($50 billion in 2013.) > they haven't successfully SOLD anything to date. If they haven't sold anything but advertising, they must have just conjured that $5 billion in non-advertising revenue (and that total, and the proportion of non-advertising revenue to total revenue -- has been growing every year) in 2013 out of thin air. Which, you know, would be even more impressive than selling stuff.

clarky07 13y ago
91% of their business is advertising, 9% is other stuff including android apps, chromecast, chromebooks, fiber, app engine. The actual number is 4.927 billion for 2013[1]. They have not really had a successful product outside of advertising. Chromecast is probably the closest thing to a success out of all the other things they do. Seeing as how they don't have a single business line over a billion, I'd consider all of them hobbies at this point for a company the size of google. Apple TV is a > 1 billion product now, and it is absolutely a hobby for Apple. Yet they have 4 different product lines that are huge businesses. Microsoft has a lot of huge business lines. Google has advertising and a bunch of hobbies. Hopefully at some point they turn into something. I'm specifically rooting for Fiber. But that doesn't mean it's true right now. It's just not. [1] http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html
- Ellipsis753 13y ago
  Well hobbies to Google or not they're still big businesses compared to most (and most are growing). Actually having a lot of small "hobbies" seem quite a good way to diversify. Although they still make most (I think) of their profits from the main search they're clearly still making a lot from all the other things that they do. It's not like they lose money on them all or anything.

porlw 13y ago

Google is a media company, like TV or publishing. It's not like deriving income from advertising is a strange way to do business. At least Google is a bit more diverse with how they spend their money.