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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Google makes money from ads as well. Why would they do this?
Googles business is advertising.. take away their ad revenue and see what happens to them.
Thank google and their ad ecosystem.
Except Google is making money on it too by serving the ads.
I'm sure Google appreciates the protection of their advertising revenue.
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 :)
I suspect Google makes more money from showing you ads than they would save on servers/bandwidth/etc by being skimpy.
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.
Google is not optimizing for the fewest number of ads. They are optimizing for profit from ads.
Google already takes a cut of ad revenue regardless.