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Its all just your perception. In those 15 years they have made the following contributions (and this is just a select few): Golang, MapReduce, Kubernetes, Containers (well, C Groups), GMail, Android, Chrome. Not to mention all the amazing open source contributions and god knows what else they do in secret.

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Just to name a few more: translate, drive, adsense, images, earth, maps, glass, cloud platform, chrome TV, sketchup.

Yes they are primarily a search engine, but they are heavily diversified, not to mention one company being responsible for basically the entire consumer internet is insane.

I was talking about their source of income. I think adwords / adsense still accounts for the the absolute majority of it.

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