audiate t1_jd388j5 wrote
Reply to comment by demanbmore in ELI5: Why does Google offer all these free services like Google Docs, Sheets, Drive, Sites, Forms, etc. without any ads on them? How does Google benefit from this and why do they invest so much in creating and maintaining them? by Elena_Edie
Plus it gets their tendrils into the every day lives of people. Call it an investment to intertwine their company with the basic functions of people’s lives in order to get them invested in the ecosystem, making it easy for them to go all-in on google services and difficult to switch to another service.
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