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by sureIy 775 days ago
Your math is off. They have to pay the engineers whether it’s towards Google or Microsoft. Those $20B are pure profit
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No, if they deleted the search box and didn't need to maintain it, there would be no engineer required to maintain it.
Makes zero sense. No search box will ever be dropped. If it’s not Google it’s Microsoft or Apple.