How Big is Big Tech? Nobody Really Knows.

We’re all being duped by extremely questionable data

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Last month, The New York Times published the comical notion that Google makes $4.7 billion in annual revenue from news publishers. The statistic was based solely on a 10-year extrapolation from a single off-handed comment Marissa Mayer made in 2008. By the same methodology used in this study, I can now…