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A profit center is whatever aspect of a company's business makes them the most dough, and should make up for the...not-so-profit-y centers.

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Finance a la shmoop what is a profit center? well here's a profit center and

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here's a profit center yeah Google search is where Google makes like a [Google search of profits appear]

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hundred forty-two percent of its profits so search for Google is its profit

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center in fact if it weren't for its search engine well Google would actually

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be losing money YouTube loses a billion dollars a year

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depending on how you do the math Google Maps loses 100 million or so everything

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else loses a few billion a year and search makes thirty billion dollars a

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year annually yeah per year that's what it means

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so more than makes up for everything else that's its profit Center and

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without that profit center generating profits or cash to fund all these other [Man playing guitar with VR]

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wacky ideas the driverless cars our favorite while Google would just be

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searching for a way to make money but it doesn't it found it it's called search...

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