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Originally Posted by emellaich
But Google is quite willing to do non-commercial things where it boosts overall web traffic. For example, I could see Google putting up a free and ad-free book database. You could go directly to the database and download a book for free. Of course, you can go to the Google search engine and lookup books that are in the free database. This is no different than the way that a google search turns up Wikipedia articles.
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Google has done non commercial stuff in the past. Doing non commercial things for direct profit does not mean they will not profit. There are tax benefits at times, plus it raises their name among potential customers. Plus, for something like an adfree database of free books, other companies would pay Google for the ability to use it. Basically, why reinvent the wheel sort of thing.