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There's a problem... Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.
There are some people who don’t use Google. I use Duck Duck Go for search. Additionally, with the rise of LLMs I have been using search much less in general.
There's a problem... Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.
proton did 54,000 samples of US users and made an average of what advertisers are willing to pay to target, not what they actually did across the whole population
and plus this isn’t to inform you, it’s to sell you on another proton honeypot
There's a problem... Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.
ok, and? proton did 54,000 samples of US users and made an average of what advertisers are willing to pay to target, not what they actually did across the whole population and plus this isn’t to inform you, it’s to sell you on another proton honeypot
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Presumably this only counts internet users who use Google.
Correct. If 250 M people use it in the US out of a population of 349 M, Google would make 401 B USD out of them, vs 403 B USD in worldwide revenues. These numbers do not look right to me.
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Correct. If 250 M people use it in the US out of a population of 349 M, Google would make 401 B USD out of them, vs 403 B USD in worldwide revenues. These numbers do not look right to me.
If you’re going to extrapolate you should use the median, which would put it at 200B for USA.
- avg. $1_605
- but mean is $760, i.e. half the users generate $760 or less
I also wouldn't be surprised if the sampling distribution has two maxima even if smoothed (on around the mean and another at the lower end). Would be nice to have that plotted out properly.
This is a good example of why averages (by themself) can be very misleading: - avg. $1_605 - but mean is $760, i.e. half the users generate $760 or less I also wouldn't be surprised if the sampling distribution has two maxima even if smoothed (on around the mean and another at the lower end). Would be nice to have that plotted out properly.
Median*. Mean and median are both measures of averages, though colloquially average is taken to exclusively mean the mean.
There's a problem... Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.
There are some people who don’t use Google. I use Duck Duck Go for search. Additionally, with the rise of LLMs I have been using search much less in general.
similar anti-fingerprinting tech can kill ad revenue as it makes users non distinguishable from bots (but likely doesn't matter here)