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> it doesn't create significant value for end users with advertising It doesn't? Google ads fund YouTube, Gmail, Docs, Chrome, Android, and lots of other hit G
by cromwellian 12y ago
> it doesn't create significant value for end users with advertising
It doesn't? Google ads fund YouTube, Gmail, Docs, Chrome, Android, and lots of other hit Google services that are Google produced products/content, not a middle-man service between content producer and advertiser.
- lmm 12y agoThat was the grandparent's whole point - the value (at least in this naive conception) Google creates comes from its non-advertising - and non-profitable - parts. (If some other organization got the profits Google was making as an advertising middleman, who's to say they wouldn't produce equally good products/content?)
- grey-area 12y agoit doesn't create significant value for end users with advertising