Forum Overview :: American McGee's Honda Civic :: Ads are obviously the powerhouse

[quote name="Google delenda est"][quote name="IPB"]The company gets yanked around by Ads the way Azure kicks around the rest of MS. Google's original company purpose was simple - index information and monetize this with ads. Their early projects were based around this, like Google Books. They were willing to to court over this. They won! Then they functionally if not officially killed off the project in the early 2010s and indexing information wasn't a priority. That's also when ICJ started his Google complaint thread and that is why this place is the best.[/quote] Azure can do no wrong as long as big partners have big bills to spin up services, computing, VMs etc. [quote name="blackwater"]I actually think the exact opposite. Ads makes the money, but the company was always kind of ashamed of it, and rarely seemed to set direction based on Ads. Like if Ads had been in the driver's seat, why would they have cancelled Google Reader, or let Google Books stagnate, or made such a mess of chat?[/quote] Overall direction in every case might not be dictated by advertising. Ultimately the climate still gives the partners, because what's an ad platform <i>without</i> advertisers, a lot of power in policy even if not always wielded or realized. YouTube would probably be the best example in hitting both subservience to advertisers, plus the insulated propaganda/censorship of Silicon Valley. Post something that fall under these columns and get punished by the clergy. Great thread![/quote]