Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Alphabet gives a new meaning to the term Blowout quarter. Cruz is getting ready to launch its

robot taxi business in San Francisco, a GDPR issue that might have huge

implications, Starlink has a new premium tier, and what happens if someone buys your

house your IRL house but in the metaverse I'm not kidding here's what you

miss today in the world of tech alphabet of Tech.

Alphabet reported an absolute blowout quarter yesterday. Let me give you just this one stat.

Q4 revenue for Alphabet rose 32% year over year

to 75.3 billion dollars.

Again, that's quarterly revenue.

And stop and think about that a company as mature and doing as much business

as alphabet already was is still growing 32% year over year. The law of large numbers is officially dead I guess. Let me put

it to you another way. In the year 2021, Alphabet grew sales by a total of 7575 billion over a year earlier.

So if you were being glib about it,

the way you'd say this is Alphabet invented $75 billion

in new business just last year. The total annual revenue of

Coke, the Sugar Water Company, is 38 billion dollars a year. So Alphabet generated two

entire Coke-sized businesses in terms of new sales just last year.

And yes, this is largely from ads.

Folks like myself have snarked and warned that you know Google can't really cram any more ads anywhere

there's diminishing returns they're running out of real estate and yet

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