Google, Not A Search Company…

Actually Google is an ad company, not a search company, Eric Schmidt pretty much said as much in this interview with Wired:

Wired: How should we think about Google today?

Schmidt: Think of it first as an advertising system. Then as an end-user system — Google Apps. A third way to think of Google is as a giant supercomputer. And a fourth way is to think of it as a social phenomenon involving the company, the people, the brand, the mission, the values — all that kind of stuff.