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Comment by alemanek

Splitting ads off from Search doesn’t mean Search doesn’t show ads.

It just means that now multiple ad networks get to bid for those ad slots. Whoever wants to share the most money with the Search division wins. All their major properties get crazy traffic and will do just fine on their own.

Chrome can make search deals and again they are siphoning off all kinds of data. They can start selling that to data brokers instead of using it internally. Not to mention regional default search engine deals.

Android is on 80% of devices worldwide. You are telling me they can’t monetize that? YouTube isn’t a loss leader anymore.

Google should be broken up. Same for most of Big Tech.

parent alemanek 2 years ago

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