Too big to fail? Search is only one revenue stream.
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Gsus4@programming.dev 7 months ago
Who thinks google will still be a traded company in 10 years?
JayTreeman@fedia.io 7 months ago
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Similar tactic among all the large tech corpos, switch focus to IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, become the backbone of the modern computing landscape.
It’s basically a slow switch to becoming critical international infrastructure like power grids, water ways, and gas/oil pipelines.
This all while locking you in as much as possible and milking as much value as they can squeeze.
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’d be advertising, and by a mile.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Through search. They make a ton with ads on the search page, sponsored links, etc.
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I’m pretty sure their ad revenue from their own pages is a tiny fraction of their advertising revenue… They basically own the advertising market online, almost anywhere you see ads googie is getting a cut
eee@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I mean IBM is still traded but it’s a shadow if it’s former self
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ICQ shut down yesterday and it was relatively small to begin with so I‘m afraid Google will be around for decades to come and possibly outlive most or even all of us.
Fermion@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Yahoo is still around in some form or another.
Alphabet has enough money to persist well after they lose relevance.