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Yeah it's such a dumb way to end the article. Google in 2004 was a search company. Google in 2024 is an advertising company.


Google in 2004 was also an advertising company - it's not like there was a point where you paid for searching directly. 2024 Google is more of an everything company that's primarily funded by advertising - they tap into search and every kind of content imaginable, make hardware, do research. It's about the number of services - in 2004, Google had barely launched Gmail yet.




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