Ad revenue business

Being supported by ad revenue is not the same as being an ad business.

There are ad businesses out there, companies who make ads. But Google does not. They provide a platform which does raise significant revenue from serving ads but so do papers, magazines, TV channels, podcasts, and so on.

By your logic you might as well call Formula 1 racing an ad business. They make some money from ticket sales but that’s very small compared to the ad revenue.

Nice catch.