Google as Ad Company

Comments emphasize that Google is primarily an advertising company, with search, Gmail, Android, and other products serving as loss-leaders to drive ad revenue and user data collection for targeted ads.

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tzahola • Dec 17, 2017 • View on HN

Because Google is an advertisement company.

mr_toad • Nov 7, 2018 • View on HN

Google is an ad businesses. At this point their other products; search, Gmail, Android are all just loss-leaders.

mbrodersen • Dec 16, 2019 • View on HN

Google is an ad company. What do you expect?

ori_b • Dec 26, 2011 • View on HN

Google is an advertising company, effectively. When your focus is advertising, and everything else exists mainly to support it, that's different.

theduder99 • Dec 2, 2023 • View on HN

because google is an ads company

ryanmercer • Dec 5, 2019 • View on HN

You aren't the customer, you're the product...Google is an advertising company.

bira • Dec 25, 2011 • View on HN

Isn't Google a business based on advertising revenue?

datadeft • Jun 5, 2024 • View on HN

Daily reminder that Google is an ad tech company. Everything they do is financed by ads. If the service is not relevant to ads it is going to be shut down eventually.

throway1n • Feb 15, 2020 • View on HN

well google is an ad company, what’s your point

vecter • Jul 10, 2016 • View on HN

Google is "just advertising". What's your point?