Amazon's accelerating growth wins favour over Google's bigger bottom line

Google's $26.1 billion of operating income last year is about 40% more than Amazon has earned in its entire existence

One problem the brilliant minds at Google have yet to solve: How to beat Amazon.com at its own game.

It isn’t for a lack of trying. Over the last couple of years, the internet search giant has aggressively built up its own cloud-computing business and pumped out its own line of smart speaker products—two relatively new businesses that have been wildly successful for Amazon. And that hasn’t been without some success on Google’s part. Its cloud-computing arm is now generating more than $1 billion in revenue every quarter. And its Home line of smart speakers now has about 31% of the