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"Selling ads" puts it harshly, but it's entirely what this is about. More information, more organization, more people online, more ads :)
by JustinJBM 12y ago
"Selling ads" puts it harshly, but it's entirely what this is about. More information, more organization, more people online, more ads :)
- grey 12y agoI think Google has shown they're trying very hard to become a primary infrastructure host for any business in "The Cloud", getting more people online opens up new opportunities there too
- nlh 12y agoWell, yes, but there's an argument to be made that while your cycle is certainly correct, the starting and ending points aren't necessarily fixed. Why not: More ads -> more $$ -> more information -> more organization -> more people online (and, thus, more freedom, more intelligence, etc.)
- Florin_Andrei 12y ago> "Selling ads" puts it harshly, but it's entirely what this is about. By the same token, you're a machine that transforms food and oxygen into excrement and CO2. That puts it harshly, but it's entirely what this is about - if you judge things at that level. What I mean is - selling ads is what keeps their "corporate metabolism" going, but the actual long-term goals of the founders might be (and, indeed, are) very different from that most basic of all levels.