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> Google is much more diversified (total revenue is north of 250 billion). They have cloud, youtube, docs, google play, all the alphabet experiments etc.

Do read their 10-K: https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q4_alphabet_earnings...

The only thing that realistically brings in money is ads. All other things are just subsidised by them.

For example Google Cloud (which includes both GCP and workspace offerings aka docs)? Well, it lost 6 billion dollars.

> cause they really need businesses that produce a few hundred billion to keep all their free stuff

The only such business they have is ads.




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