For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)
In your analogy I think Google sells chainsaws, lumber, wood stoves, and paper pulp.
You forgot the part where they will give you a sponsored clutch pencil, and make you buy their special lead refills…