Talk:List of largest Internet companies

Google: Industry Type
I am sure Google would like to represent themselves more broadly. One look at Google's finances will tell you that about 85% of Google's revenue come from advertising. GOOG 4Q 2018 revenue from advertising was $3,2635B from total revenue $39,122B, or 83.4% (Data from https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2018Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf download 4/11/2019 at 12: Pacific Time). Google is therefore an "Internet & mobile advertising company", or "Advertising company" or "Internet Advertising Company". All the important projects are in support of advertising revenue (e.g., Android, search etc.). There are a few long-shots, but none earning any revenue. David Floyer (talk) 18:03, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Google's Industry is listed as Search. Although this was true at one point, it is only a small portion of Google's business. Search allows Google to advertise, which produces some of there top revenue, but I would still argue that they are not a Search industry but an Internet Services company.

Google is an Internet Services and Products company. They are reaching out into other areas and can be simply considered a Technology and Innovations company on a very general level.

From Wikipedia's Google page:

"Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords. "

From Google's about page:

"We provide a variety of tools to help businesses of all kinds succeed on and off the web."

"We build products that we hope will make the web better ... "

Industry Type

Furthermore, is Search really considered an industry? That seems a little narrow.

Information Architecture and Linking
Being a newcomer and first-time poster, I also wonder if there is way to "link" the named object, Google, with its industry type, so that other references to its industry type do not deviate. Is this possible? I am talking about Information Architecture and am wondering about Wikimedia's implementation or limits.

Carlosfhernandez (talk) 13:42, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

More on Information Architecture
I continue to see too many discrepancies between "objects" or "concepts". If an object, Google, can be references, then its information can be universal. Google is of type: business; industry type: Marketing, Internet Services, and Consumer Products; location: Mountain View, CA, USA; etc. Then, when it is references elsewhere, there is uniformity. I see articles where others reference business X as industry type A or B or A +B. This would seem to remove some credibility from the overall collection. I suppose this is a much larger topic, with this Google's industry type being one example. Is there any project under way to remedy this, beyond brute force review?

Carlosfhernandez (talk) 14:04, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Flipkart
Any reason why Flipkart shouldnt be listed in this catagory?It has been valued in excess of $11bn by investors like Naspers and Tiger global and has a revenue of $1bn plus.Why someone keeps removing it from the list despite providing proper references. sunny.......... 19:02, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Flipkart mentions its total sales as $1bn in 2014.Amazon does the same and mentions $88bn as total sales in the reference in this list.GMV is the total sales of a company be it Flipkart or Amazon,the exact profit out of that amount is different.So dont know why Flipkart shouldnt be on this listsunny.......... 21:26, 24 April 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunnyji 2k (talk • contribs)

Flipkart revenue is Rs 2000 crore(about $300 Million) ,its annual sales have hit $1 billion (about Rs 6,000 crore) which is estimated by the gross merchandise value (GMV) transacted on its site ,according to the reference link referred by Sunnyji 2k,Please try to understand that GMV and revenue are completely different thing.GMV or Gross Merchandize Value represents the price of products sold and revenues is just a fraction of that.For example-Alibaba's GMV reached $270 Billion and its revenue was $8.57 Billion in 2014.Amazon's GMV was assumed to be $92 Billion (Amazon does not report GMV publicly) and its revenue was $61 Billion in 2012.The list is based on Revenue not GMV.So please stop adding Flipkart to the list. Razor147 (talk) 11:34, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Flipkart doesnt report its Revenue and GMV separately just like Amazon.So there is no way you can say that such and such is the GMV and such and such is revenue.Flipkart reports its total sales in terms of GMV which was in excess of USD 1bn in 2013-14 and touched USD 3bn by October 2014 and was expected to touch USD 5bn by 2015 end. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunnyji 2k (talk • contribs) 17:37, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Flipkart revenue is about $300 million and GMV $1bn according to the reference link in the list.According to Flipkart Wikipedia page also its revenue was Rs 2,846 crore in the year 2014.The finance portion of the page states that it is aiming at generating a revenue of INR 50 billion (US$0.81 billion) by 2015.Also,Amazon GMV was $111bn ,ebay $76.5bn,Alibaba $270bn in 2014,but this list is based on revenue not gross merchandise volume,so only revenues are included in the list. Razor147 (talk) 03:15, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Missing entry
Someone removed the third entry, then someone else renumbered the fourth entry to be the third entry. I don't know enough about these companies to know whether the entry that was removed was in there in error a whether the removal was in error.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  13:12, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

Microsoft with cloud computing (Microsoft Azure) and cloud based version of Microsoft Office). https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-cloud-providers-2018-how-aws-microsoft-google-ibm-oracle-alibaba-stack-up/

Jim.Callahan,Orlando (talk) 12:34, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Cloud Based version of Microsoft Office (Office 365). Jim.Callahan,Orlando (talk) 12:35, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Gokroy
Gokroy group clearly shouldn't be here. This business does not have 10bn$ revenue. It is small unknown company — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.94.41.109 (talk) 14:21, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Netflix
With the revenue numbers listed on this page, Netflix should be #8, not #10. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roschern (talk • contribs) 06:49, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Paypal
Where is paypal its a spin off now,It should be above baidu. Raj vijay shah (talk) 19:48, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Missing companies
If Uber is there, LYFT should be there. Market Cap $20.976B, 2018 revenue $2.16B from https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/LYFT?p=LYFT&.tsrc=fin-srch downloaded 4/11/2019 at 11:08 Pacific Time David Floyer (talk) 18:09, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Where's YOOX Net-a-Porter Group? SalvoIsaja (talk) 20:07, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Sorting?
It appears that sorting by Market Cap or Revenue is not working correctly, at least on Safari 12.1. When sorting by revenue, Amazon and Google ($74/73B) are placed between Expedia and Bloomberg ($10/$9.6B). Sorted by Market Cap, Google ($791B) is placed in front of Amazon ($802B). (Stephan mantler~dewiki (talk) 10:53, 18 July 2019 (UTC))

Graphs?
I'm not sure if those two graphs at the top of the page are really all that useful. Especially with the poor attempt at a trendline for data that really don't show much of a trend at all — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8805:8083:100:6506:DA5C:D8FF:54F5 (talk) 23:44, 13 December 2021 (UTC)