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Why most of Google Services are free.

If you are not being charged for a product, you are the product.

Google gives you a lot of free things. Those free things are Google’s payment to you.
What is Google? If you say “a tech company” or “a search engine company,” you are wrong. Google is an advertising company.
Google makes its money by selling you. You are the product. Google sells information about you to rs. The information they sell is way more detailed and complete than you think it is.
Everything you do with Google’s “free” stuff is recorded and analysed to learn more about you. Every email you send or receive through Gmail is scanned for keywords. Google knows what you like, what you hate, what you're afraid of, what you buy, and what political views you hold. They can deduce from your pattern of usage what hours you work and how far from home your workplace is. They know if you're cheating on your partner. The information they collect would make an old-school KGB agent green with envy.
Their business model is selling access to you based on this information to others. Not to government agencies or private investigators; that's chump change. The real money is selling access based on this information to people who want to sell you things.
Apple sells computers. Google sells you. When you deal with Apple, you are the customer. When you deal with Google, you are the product; Google’s advertising buyers are the customer.
A lot of folks have pointed out that Google does not sell personal files on its s. This is mostly true; what they're selling is access to you based on your information.
I say “mostly true” because Google does sometimes sell aggregate search data that has been “anonymized” (stripped of personally identifiable information). However, the information Google (and others) gather is so deep and so detailed that it turns out to be very easy to figure out which individuals the “anonymised” data belong to.



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kindly move it let people learn more

Very educative piece.

nuelsylves:
Very educative piece.

Thank you, do well to share it to others

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The google products you know are free but there are many that are paid for. Funny to know many that they charge today where once free. So the mathematics was to make that aspect of the industry monopoly and then when they have beat off competition, they add a price tag. For example google custom e-mail cost about $20

geunik:
The google products you know are free but there are many that are paid for. Funny to know many that they charge today where once free. So the mathematics was to make that aspect of the industry monopoly and then when they have beat off competition, they add a price tag. For example google custom e-mail cost about $20

by custtom email do you mean the new business email? most of google services are free. please can you list some google services that are paid for? then i will tell you and show you its free. all the same the right up was a personal view gotten out of personal research. cheers

patomaniac:

by custtom email do you mean the new business email? most of google services are free. please can you list some google services that are paid for? then i will tell you and show you its free. all the same the right up was a personal view gotten out of personal research. cheers

1. Google customize email address like .business name.com for a price
2. New to only American citizens of America, google sells domain for a fee
3.
And To your app to google play store, you are to pay about $25.
Pls these are the few I know of. There may be more bit most of their services are free

geunik:

1. Google customize email address like .business name.com for a price
2. New to only American citizens of America, google sells domain for a fee
3.
And To your app to google play store, you are to pay about $25.
Pls these are the few I know of. There may be more bit most of their services are free

For number 1,its a new service and it'sike buying Your Own domain name, it's still in its testing phase,

For number 2, why should you buy domain from Google??

I feel what the OP is trying to say is that majority kg google services re free, imagine if you have to pay for using Google Search engine?? So their peculiar services re free... My 1cent doe

Very interesting topic, lalasticlala let's move it to FP,

patomaniac:

by custtom email do you mean the new business email? most of google services are free. please can you list some google services that are paid for? then i will tell you and show you its free. all the same the right up was a personal view gotten out of personal research. cheers

Google App for Business is not free ooo
Some Part of Analytic are not free (Most especially the Data Intelligent Services), Google App Services are not free, and some more

talk2hb1:

Google App for Business is not free ooo
Some Part of Analytic are not free (Most especially the Data Intelligent Services), Google App Services are not free, and some more

Well but we can totally agree that most of their services are free. Thats all