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Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by Xorlev on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @10:58PM (#16058244)
> So she stopped being an indirect servant of popular will, and started selling ads. Great.

You do realize Google does more than sell ads, right? Search and Maps alone are tremendously useful tools, not to mention the dozens, hundreds of other products. Drive, Docs, Photos...

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Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by PakG1 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:07PM (#16058293)
Most of which are funded by selling ads, and then feed back into the cycle though, right? But I'm not as cynical as gp about it.
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Re:NSA’s top talent is leaving because of low pay, flagging ... by username223 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @11:12PM (#16058312)
> You do realize Google does more than sell ads, right? Search and Maps alone are tremendously useful...

Proftable? Not so much.

Google is a surveillance company that currently makes money off ads, and gathers data through Maps, Search, Drive, Docs, Photos... Think about what happens when the current ad bubble pops.

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