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| Google posts quarterly results |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-07-20 00:59:48 |
| "Google today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2012. 'Google standalone had a strong quarter with 21% year-on-year revenue growth, and we launched a bunch of exciting new products at I/O - in particular the Nexus 7 tablet, which has received rave reviews,' said Larry Page, CEO of Google, 'This quarter is also special because Motorola is now part of the Google family, and we're excited about the potential to build great devices for users.'" |
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| Comment by some1 |
| By some1 on 2012-07-20 02:46:15 |
| ref vs. href typo in the link |
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| How much revenue came from anything other than Search? |
| By tomcat on 2012-07-20 04:06:53 |
| Pretty much zip. |
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| RE: How much revenue came from anything other than Search? |
| By Johann Chua on 2012-07-20 05:01:40 |
| And that's relevant because...? |
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| RE: How much revenue came from anything other than Search? |
| By bitwelder on 2012-07-20 05:46:49 |
| So what? The entire Google business is centered around advertisement (and search). Everything else is there just to keep the main business growing. |
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| RE[2]: How much revenue came from anything other than Search? |
| By Radio on 2012-07-20 05:59:43 |
| I think they recognize that fact and are actively looking into diversification (hence Motorola, hence Google Play Music/Movies/etc., hence the Nexus Q, etc.). |
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| RE: How much revenue came from anything other than Search? |
| By l3v1 on 2012-07-20 06:06:26 |
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> Pretty much zip. Well, I don't know, maybe you could find some companies out there, who'd be really happy to see their main line of businness be as profitable as Google's (and still be able to spend on Motorola, and be able to offer some hw at manufact. price, and be able to work on a line of new stuff). I would be. |
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| RE[2]: How much revenue came from anything other than Search? |
| By arpan on 2012-07-20 08:11:47 |
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True, but a single source of income also means that Google are vulnerable. What if after their contract is up, Mozilla decide to go with Bing. What if Apple & Samsung stop using Google as the default search engine. That would have a huge impact on Google's income. |
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| RE[3]: How much revenue came from anything other than Search? |
| By acobar on 2012-07-20 12:37:23 |
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Hum, lets recap a long list of things/companies that or were in the path or tried it latter. On online advertising: - Crushed all others; On search: - Altavista - crushed; - Yahoo (search) - crushed; - Bing - failed. On browsers: - raised to 2nd position even though was last to arrive. With the explosion of smart-phones, lined to be the first. On Phones: - Nokia - crushed; - RIM - crushed; - Palm - crushed; - Apple - failed to get market leadership. On tablets: - Little success so far, but improving. On maps: - Crushed all others. On online services (mail, office): - getting their share. On social nOt-working: - Seems like Google+ is improving. We cannot say that Google created all things or were first to the market in pretty much any segment they do business, but they know better than any other company I know how the leverage what is there to help improve their own business and, while doing it, also helping foster a lot of FOSS projects. Also, they put a lot of effort on partnership. That was a strong point of Microsoft before they became the leviathan they are today and started to disrespect or neglect the ties they had acting like a dictator and pissing off left and right. Hope google does not follow this path. Oh, yeah, Firefox user here. |
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| RE[4]: How much revenue came from anything other than Search? |
| By judgen on 2012-07-20 16:20:38 |
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Google+ might look like a failiure, but it is not. It is growing and the setup of it all is not like facebook where you can physically track a person down that you disagree with, Google+ without a doubt is the only competitor to facebook that matters. And facebook is going to be the next myspace soon unless major changes is made to their concept. Guess who will pick up the pieces? Last i checked, facebook is till bleeding users to an extent almost unfathomable in the west. They claim they are growing in the far east, but even though they are at the same amount of users, the relative purchase power of lets say fillipino or chinese users is alot less. Thus ads does not matter as much. Add to that the failiure of localization of ads on facebook. When i was in Cambodia and used facebook non of the adds were in champa, and seriously.. Almost none of the champa populace would understand english ads and much less buy something from those ads. |
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| RE[3]: How much revenue came from anything other than Search? |
| By spiderman on 2012-07-20 17:57:31 |
| The default search engine of the most popular browser (more than 50% market share) is Bing. If Mozilla decided to change the default search engine it would have a little impact, Apple and Samsung even less. When people search something on the net, they 'Google' it, they don't 'Bing' it. They just go to www.google.com |
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