Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results

purple_ferret wrote: post #4

Really amazing how much money they keep squeezing out search But it's basically impossible to escape the ads on it these days, so it's not surprising.

Out of broken search actually. Pretty amazing.

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Post by tryptophan » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 9:27 PM UTC

purple_ferret wrote: post #4

Really amazing how much money they keep squeezing out search But it's basically impossible to escape the ads on it these days, so it's not surprising.

>t it's basically impossible to escape the ads on it these days, so it's not surprising

ublock origin seems to do fine.

Unless you are suggesting that the ad-ladden SEO'd pages are their real product?

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Post by subsubzero » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 9:32 PM UTC

owlninja wrote: post #2

A 20:1 stock split as well.

That will price shares back to their IPO level in 2004, $130/140 a share.

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Post by purple_ferret » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 9:35 PM UTC

tryptophan wrote: post #6

purple_ferret wrote: post #4

Really amazing how much money they keep squeezing out search But it's basically impossible to escape the ads on it these days, so it's not surprising.

>t it's basically impossible to escape the ads on it these days, so it's not surprising ublock origin seems to do fine. Unless you are suggesting that the ad-ladden SEO'd pages are their real product?

Even with ublock I'll stumble into a google ad for when I search for something like a restaurant or hotel

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Post by xyzzyz » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 9:36 PM UTC

subsubzero wrote: post #7

owlninja wrote: post #2

A 20:1 stock split as well.

That will price shares back to their IPO level in 2004, $130/140 a share.

Don’t forget there already was one 2:1 stock split in 2014 or so.

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Post by NotAnOtter » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 9:36 PM UTC

endisneigh wrote: post #3

Man, Google’s poor search results sure do pay well /s. I wonder if Google will make any big acquisitions this year

Google is many things, but poor search results is not one of them. Still the best search engine around, being too good is the problem most people have