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AlienRobot • yesterday at 11:23 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

You are wrong. Search is already profitable. It doesn't need to become more profitable. The profits can simply be used to improve the profitability of other offerings like Google Cloud.


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bradknowles • today at 2:16 AM

That’s not the way Wallstreet thinks. They insist on continuing growth, year over year. Accelerating growth, even.

If you don’t show growth every year, then your stock tanks because you can’t show them the profit that they would make through buying your stock today and then selling it next year.

At least, that’s the way they normally think.