Google Search Is Like ‘Cigarettes or Drugs,’ Executive Said
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A senior Google executive once likened the company's search advertising business to selling drugs, calling it “one of the world's greatest business models ever created” since the company can “ignore” users and focus on generating revenue from advertising.Michael Roszak, vice president for finance at Alphabet Inc.'s Google, wrote the notes during a July 2017 training Google offered on communications. “Search advertising is one of the world's greatest business models ever created,” Roszak wrote, adding that there were only “illicit businesses (cigarettes or drugs) that could rival these economics.” Google's business can effectively “ignore one of the fundamental laws of economics,” Roszak wrote, supply and demand. This allowed the company to “ignore the demand side of the equation ...