GMail, Maps, YouTube, Chrome, Android
These products aren’t by themselves profitable, they just build the datasets used for advertising
These products aren’t by themselves profitable, they just build the datasets used for advertising
It's hard to find numbers online, but it seems like Maps generates about 10 billion in annual revenue, and YouTube 10-20 billion. For comparison, Netflix has 20 billion in annual revenue and 1-2 billion in annual profits.
The person I was replying to said Google is the most unhealthy of the FAANG companies with nothing to show aside from search. But... one part of their "nothing" generates as much revenue as one of those FAANG companies.
Google is one of my least favorite businesses, but I feel like everyone is downplaying their accomplishments and diversity.