Google's Ad Revenue

Comments focus on Google's primary dependence on advertising revenue, debating its implications for business decisions, ad ecosystems, and competition.

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jfdybzz • Jun 3, 2021 • View on HN

Google makes money from ads as well. Why would they do this?

rdsnsca • Jul 14, 2021 • View on HN

Googles business is advertising.. take away their ad revenue and see what happens to them.

lofaszvanitt • Oct 24, 2025 • View on HN

Thank google and their ad ecosystem.

idontwantthis • Jun 6, 2024 • View on HN

Except Google is making money on it too by serving the ads.

JeremyBanks • Mar 12, 2019 • View on HN

I'm sure Google appreciates the protection of their advertising revenue.

kingkilr • May 21, 2010 • View on HN

I don't think so, didn't google publish that they "lose" 60 million USD or something beaues people click it and don't see ads :)

cloudwalking • Feb 25, 2013 • View on HN

I suspect Google makes more money from showing you ads than they would save on servers/bandwidth/etc by being skimpy.

jrockway • Jan 20, 2012 • View on HN

Google's money comes from providing things to click that are relevant. Sometimes those are ads, but most times those are search results. If you click a search result and see nothing but ads, you're less inclined to continue to use Google. A balance has to be made between advertising and non-advertising, and all ads is not the right balance.

teachrdan • Jan 21, 2020 • View on HN

Google is not optimizing for the fewest number of ads. They are optimizing for profit from ads.

gizmo385 • Mar 9, 2018 • View on HN

Google already takes a cut of ad revenue regardless.