# Profits From Data Harvesting & Advertising Are Not Shared In the most recently reported fiscal year, Google's revenue amounted to 181.69 billion US dollars. These earnings are despite a global pandemic that crippled most traditional businesses yet benefited big tech greatly. \ \ Google's revenue is largely made up of [advertising revenue](https://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-revenue-of-google/), which amounted to 146.9 billion US dollars in 2020.\ \ These types of earnings, earned mainly from data harvesting and advertising revenue, have allowed Google to become one of the largest companies on the face of the planet and arguably the most dominant internet-based company in the world. \ \ None of this revenue is shared with daily users in the form of financial compensation. ![https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/googles-annual-global-revenue/](/files/-MduoZD4Iugsi_qbGfh4) ![https://www.statista.com/statistics/633651/alphabet-annual-global-revenue-by-segment/](/files/-Mdup5Et7s2CB46m8frC) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://whitepaper.operationaura.com/problems/profits-from-data-harvesting-and-advertising-are-not-shared.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.