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Google in the grip of a midlife crisis – The Australian

It may be just 21 years old, but Google is in the midst of a midlife crisis. As so often in such cases, all seems well on the surface. Every day its search engine handles six billion requests, YouTube receives 49 years’ worth of video uploads and Gmail proces…

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  • By The Economist
  • 12:00AM August 1, 2020
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It may be just 21 years old, but Google is in the midst of a midlife crisis. As so often in such cases, all seems well on the surface. Every day its search engine handles six billion requests, YouTube receives 49 years worth of video uploads and Gmail processes about 100 billion emails. Thanks to its dominance of online advertising, Googles parent company, Alphabet, made a profit of $US34bn last year. Beyond its co…

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