Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince governments not to take more

Re:Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince gover... by marcosdumay on Saturday October 03, 2020 @10:29AM (#24672294)

So... Your post is a great example on how mixing practices and markets makes everything confusing.

The OP is all about how revenue of marketing companies shouldn't be larger than the revenue of final goods companies. But there is clearly no such restriction on self driving cars, it's a final product all by itself.

If you mix both into a "data gathering market", you have no means at all to analyze it.

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Re:Google is giving $1B to publishers to help convince gover... by netcan on Saturday October 03, 2020 @03:13PM (#24674042)

That's how we get to blackboard economics. These business models are related and interlinked. You can't separate them and still have a good model of reality.

Data is constantly growing new uses, which can go from economically marginal to central very quickly. Data gathering just isn't something that is a distinct market all on its own. The same dataset could feasibly power an ad widget, recommendation playlist or whatever.

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