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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by friday99 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:09PM (#16386611)
Those "other revenues" only account for about 13% of Google's revenue. So its a fair comparison. Google is almost 90% an advertising company.

https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2017Q4_alphabet_earnings_releas...

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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by tomc1985 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:46PM (#16386918)
Yes because all those apps exist... to funnel people towards Google's extensive advertising network, so the money shows up as adbiz revenue instead of with products.
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Re:It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies by freeone3000 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:56PM (#16387560)
So, by pursuing other technological innovations, they are able to expand their advertising business?
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