Despite bigger ambitions, Google is still an ad business

Despite bigger ambitions, Google is still an ad business

As we already know, Google’s parent company Alphabet makes the bulk of its money from ads. We also learned in quarters past that revenue from its non-Google projects, which it calls “Other Bets,” have been growing at a slow, steady rate. From the company’s just-released first quarter earnings report, this trend hasn’t changed. Alphabet made …