In fairness, was Bell Labs, part of (or funded by) AT&T, a phone monopoly, any less corporate than Google's home for genius engineers?

Telephony is much more important to society than advertisement.

I know where they make money, but calling them an advertising company is just a jab. Ha ha, but that doesn't describe Google, like them or not.

I wonder where AT&T made profits and where, like any business, they broke even or had loss leaders. IIRC consumer telephone service was not profitable.