Amazon and Google, Head-to-Head
The tech titans have profitable differences.
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The world’s largest search engine and the world’s largest online retailer are letting the sunshine in. In their latest annual earnings reports, Amazon and Google offered investors a first-time look at the profitability of their business segments -- which had long been opaque, and objects of fascination.
Would Google’s profits be higher if it weren’t for all of its spending on moonshot projects such as Google Fiber and Google X? How much of Amazon’s growth could be chalked up to its thriving cloud business, Amazon Web Services?