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Snap is worth a tiny fraction of facebook, just as facebook is worth a tiny fraction of Google when comparing global numbers in users and revenue. It all makes sense.

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Are you sure? Facebook doesn't seem to be a tiny fraction of Google in any of the comparisons. For profit, FB is looking to get to $1B/month in a few months, while Google has topped $2.5B/mo and is looking to get to $3B/mo. That's just 3x. Sure Google's revenue is more than 3x. If I had to make an educated guess, I'd say it's 5x as much. Whether you're talking just Facebook and Google for global users or including their subsidiaries, neither would have FB as a tiny fraction. FB already does 2B monthly users. Google likely isn't even double that just based on the number of internet users outside China.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

- YouTube 1B

- Gmail billions

- Android 2B

- Search billions

and the list goes on Now think about its hardware efforts on developing TPU's for AI.

Here's how billions of people use Google products, in one chart http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/18/google-user-numbers-youtube-a...

You do realize there is overlap between services people use right?

You didn't respond to the comment reply to you so I'll repeat - many users overlap. My original point stands - FB at 2B users monthly means they can't possibly be a tiny fraction because of the current amount of internet users especially when Google doesn't have a dominant share in China.

Plus you brought in other products/subsidiaries so then we have to include:

Messenger - 1B+ users

WhatsApp - 1B+ users

Instagram - 750M users

Of course I know the overlap is huge. Do you recognize you're wrong, is that why you didn't respond? That's fine then of course.

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