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For context, Here's Alphabet's quarterly financial results released yesterday:

https://abc.xyz/investor/news/earnings/2017/Q1_alphabet_earn...

Revenue is up 24% year over year. Beat analyst expectations, so the stock jumped ~4% yesterday.

And even if revenue did start dropping, unless it totally collapses overnight, Alphabet's enormous cash stockpile buys a lot of breathing room.

They could always try to more dirctly monetize gmail.

Do young people use gmail?

Do young people use email?

Yes, as the username of all the accounts they actually care about

Sure, but my question was more whether they actually send mails these days.

You mean like unroll.me?

They already monetize it. Lots of companies pay for it.

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