Comment Google is an advertising company (Score 1) 89
You keep saying that. Do you really think if you say that enough, it will magically become true?
I say it because it is true. Google makes well over 90% of its revenue from advertising. Everything else they do is a rounding error from a revenue and profit perspective. What else would you call them? They might become something else someday but they ARE an advertising company. Virtually every product they make is based on enhancing or protecting their advertising business. Email, maps, search, etc are all about increasing context sensitive ad revenue. Android is a defensive play to keep phone makers (Apple & Microsoft especially) from locking them out of mobile platforms. Set top boxes? Same thing - a defensive play. If you don't see it then you aren't looking at the big picture.