Did they really make money off search? I was always under impression that search was only a gateway to their services ecosystem and its that what makes them money.
That “search and other” figure includes revenue generated on Google’s search properties, along with ads on other Google-owned properties like Gmail, Maps and the Google Play app store."
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/how-does-google-make-money-a...
It pays enough that they're willing to pay Apple up to $15 billion a year so Apple doesn't make their own search engine and leave Google as the default search engine on Safari:
https://gadgets360.com/apps/news/google-apple-default-search...
Looks like Google Cloud (which includes Google Workspaces) is still losing money overall, not gaining money:
"Google’s public cloud has been chasing competing services from Amazon and Microsoft for so long, you might think it would be getting winded. But the critical Alphabet division keeps on keeping on, yesterday reporting revenues of more than $5.5 billion for the fourth quarter. That was the good news. The bad news was that Google Cloud accrued operating losses worth $890 million at the same time."
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/02/with-a-22b-run-rate-does-i...
Assuming they have that revenue every quarter, that still only means $18 billion of revenue per year, which is a tiny fraction of search, and barely more than they give Apple just to keep being the default search engine.