• blusterydayve26
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    10 months ago

    gave up playing their bread and butter game

    Search was never Google’s money maker, that was AdWords. Search was merely the tool they used to get users in the door and exposed to AdWords, where they made their money. AdWords raked in ~100M/day in the early 2010s iirc.