alt Hacker News> Google could have been an advertising company with a search engine. I'm glad they aren't.
They are effectively this. With huge margins that allow them to have side projects.
> Google could have been an advertising company with a search engine. I'm glad they aren't.
They are effectively this. With huge margins that allow them to have side projects.
Google has been actively trying to diversify away from being dependent on just ads for a very long time. The other ventures are certainly not side projects in terms of investment, and pretending revenue sources are equivalent to the only source of motivation is over simplifying how large companies operate.