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Re:Google’s stock slid after report on search ad decline by smt88 on Saturday June 18, 2016 @05:22AM (#11927714)
Selling Android isn't generating revenue, but that makes sense because Android is adware and also a platform. Google doesn't want to sell it directly and harm those revenue streams.

Many (most?) people primarily search from their phones now, so I imagine Android generates a lot of ad revenue. Android is even more important because most people don't know how to block ads on it, whereas desktop ad blocking has become mainstream.

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Re:Google’s stock slid after report on search ad decline by xiphias on Saturday June 18, 2016 @06:37AM (#11927872)
Google Toolbar, Chrome and Android: all of these were created with the goal to increase the number of searches. If Android wouldn't have been created, Apple could ask as much revenue sharing from Google as they want and slowly destroy Google in the process.
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