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Re:Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) by _delirium on Sunday November 06, 2011 @10:10AM (#3202821)
a search engine or something that directly competes with the company

That's a lot of things for Google these days, though. Not just search engines, but also: local search, video streaming, webmail, contextual advertising, maps, route planning, social networking, flight search, RSS aggregation, collaborative document editing, machine translation, VOIP, web browsers, mobile operating systems, app stores, programming languages/compilers/VMs, web frameworks, cloud-computing services, etc., etc.

Re:Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) by whatusername on Sunday November 06, 2011 @03:35PM (#3203745)
Newspapers did a lot of things too. But it was Classified Ads that let them do it. Once they lost that revenue stream -- every other part of the business suffers.