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by amazingamazing 54 days ago
Presumably this only counts internet users who use Google.
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Correct. If 250 M people use it in the US out of a population of 349 M, Google would make 401 B USD out of them, vs 403 B USD in worldwide revenues. These numbers do not look right to me.
If you’re going to extrapolate you should use the median, which would put it at 200B for USA.
that isn't how the median works

median is the sample in the middle of the distribution (when it is treated as a sequence of samples ordered by their value), e.g. if you have sort(seq(dist))=[100$, 5$, 5$, 3$, 1$] the median is 5$

average is sum(dist)/size(dist), so avg * size(dist) => sum(dist)

in the example above that would be median 5, avg. 22.8, total 114, size 5

if you where to multiple the median by size you would have 25$ for the total value, which is very much very wrong

True, and yet 5 describes each in the set more accurately than 25.
Why ?