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Re:Google Maps is about to get a lot more ads by studentrob on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @08:31AM (#11769274)
Who knows. If Google's revenue slips, investors get upset and make leadership changes.

It sounds like leadership is out of ideas if their only ones are to increase the size and frequency of ads on existing apps. That's a bit sad considering the talent they have there.

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Re:Google Maps is about to get a lot more ads by GantzGraf on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:49AM (#11770607)
Increased ads will bring in more revenue. They're not doing this for the sake of it.
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Re:Google Maps is about to get a lot more ads by studentrob on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:56PM (#11771224)
Right. I'm saying, they've run out of other ideas.

Ads have always been Google's major source of revenue. Now, their to answer to dwindling revenue is to add larger ads to existing apps [1]

Bigger and more ads is not very innovative for a tech company.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-increase-size-frequenc...

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