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They bought Youtube and it served Ads. Calendar is part of Gmail. Groups is pretty much dead and hasn't been upgraded in years. Android and Chrome are part of Ads. Docs is probably the only new feature that they've developed, but people pay a good amount of money for it.


How is Chrome a part of ads?

Docs was an acquisition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Docs,_Sheets,_and_Slide...


Chrome is analytics, not ads, but the two go hand in hand.




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