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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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