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Why doesn't your business make as much money as Google?

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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What was the answer? Very valid question.

    Sorry just read the rest of it there, was pretty boring to be honest and they totally avoided the question. "We have a very different model to Google" and "that's not a relevant or fair comparison". The first one is acceptable, the second one is a crock of crap!!! Of course it's relevant as they are both search engines.


  • #3
    madmik
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭madmik


    probe wrote: »
    Why doesn't your business make as much money as Google?

    because less people use it


  • #4
    conolan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 586 ✭✭✭conolan


    Problem with Yahoo was that it sort of was a search engine and sort of was your 'portal' (such a 90s term). Search tended to get you to leave Yahoo, yet content was aimed to keep you there. Pulling in two directions.
    Google is however mostly a search engine and at first was only a search engine. It doesn't do content so much as an amazing set of tools (mail, maps, docs etc.) that fit with search, which is primarily a tool.
    And of course, they cracked the advertising-search model, without which they wouldn't earn as much as they do.


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