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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 f
by 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 agoWell 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.