[username223]

> But Google is big enough to shift into other growth markets like media manipulation/lobbying and defence contracts etc.

They're already the number one single company in lobbying, beating out AT&T and Boeing:

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYe...

I imagine DoD would love smarter autonomous drones and tanks. They bought Boston Dynamics awhile back, makers of seriously creepy things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Dynamics

They'll do just fine when the ad bubble bursts.

[manigandham]

Google sold Boston Dynamics last summer to Softbank. Their next big moneymaker is the Google Cloud Platform which competes with AWS and Azure.