[tomc1985]

Hardly a fair comparison, considering Google's extensive non-advertising product offerings

[friday99]

Those "other revenues" only account for about 13% of Google's revenue. So its a fair comparison. Google is almost 90% an advertising company.

https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2017Q4_alphabet_earnings_releas...

[tomc1985]

Yes because all those apps exist... to funnel people towards Google's extensive advertising network, so the money shows up as adbiz revenue instead of with products.

[freeone3000]

So, by pursuing other technological innovations, they are able to expand their advertising business?

[tikhonj]

Extensive non-advertising product offerings that somehow don't translate into extensive non-advertising revenue...

[guyzero]

"if you believe that these are all just advertising companies."

I'm not the one calling Google an all-advertising company, I'm just saying that if it is, it's by far the biggest.