Google Thinks Beyond Ads at Annual Developer Conference
- Company’s digital Assistant embraces voice-based ordering
- A new chip feeds its cloud service, not the search business
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Google has been trying to move beyond advertising for some time, with mixed results. At its annual I/O developer conference this year, the company multiplied efforts to make money in different ways.
Google rarely mentions ads during its annual developer show. But products unveiled at past events usually fed that business, either directly or indirectly. This year, the most-important innovations support, or hint at, different revenue streams.