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It generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the company annually, the documents show.

This isn't suggesting that Google's success is fundamentally due to these practices - unless ofc there are a large number of projects like this.

Alphabet's 2020 revenue was $180B.

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According to this[0] ad revenue accounts for 82% of Alphabet's first quarter revenue in 2020 and I imagine a similar portion of previous quarters. You may have accidentally illuminated why this is probably a bigger scandal than it appears at first.

[0]https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/28/alphabet-earnings-q1-2020

You may have accidentally illuminated why this is probably a bigger scandal than it appears at first.

I don't understand what you mean.

This is the bread and butter of google. The meat and potatoe if you will.

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