Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial Internal Messages

Re:Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial ... by ocdtrekkie on Saturday March 31, 2018 @08:15PM (#16725914)

Google "sells hardware", yes, but Google makes somewhere in the realm of 99% of it's money on advertising. The fact that they technically have other businesses doesn't change who they are. You wouldn't call Google an ISP, yet Google also has both Fiber and Google Fi.

Google is an ad company... with hobbies.

(Microsoft is almost certainly a "software company" even though they sometimes make hardware, and while Apple does make it's own software, it is indisputably a "hardware company".)

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Re:Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial ... by darren_ on Saturday March 31, 2018 @09:23PM (#16726162)

> but Google makes somewhere in the realm of 99% of it's money on advertising

almost 15% of google's revenue in q4 2017 was hardware/cloud/subscriptions. there's possibly a bump in hardware since it's q4, but 'in the realm of 99%' is not close at all. and this is trending upwards.

(yes yes, googler here)

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Re:Facebook Employees Are Reportedly Deleting Controversial ... by ocdtrekkie on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:29AM (#16726724)

Thanks for the correction! 84% of statistics are made up on the spot, and I'll admit, I didn't check current numbers before this comment. Mind you, I don't think the percentage significantly changes the value of my point.

I do wonder if that statistic will change enough for advertising not to be the core of Google's business though.

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