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0 pointsdragonwriter9y ago0 comments

> Google still makes most (~90%) of its revenue from search.

No, it makes about that much from advertising, but "Google websites" -- mostly, but not only, search -- are only 71.3% of Google revenue.

Alphabet's 1Q 2016 10-Q: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204416...

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samfisher839y ago

They don't break it down, but I am guess profit margin for search is much higher than things like youtube since with youtube they need to send some money to copyright holders. I wonder how profitable it is? If it was super profitable they would be breaking it down. When AWS started doing well Amazon broke down how much AWS was making.

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0 pointsdragonwriter9y ago0 comments

> Google still makes most (~90%) of its revenue from search.

No, it makes about that much from advertising, but "Google websites" -- mostly, but not only, search -- are only 71.3% of Google revenue.

Alphabet's 1Q 2016 10-Q: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204416...

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samfisher839y ago

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