# Prof. Arun Sundararajan on Google and Amazon's expansion into the home-services market

1 Faculty News April 12, 2015 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_035448.jpg?itok=IVkgK8oz)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/technology/amazon-google-and-more-are-drawn-to-home-services-market.html?_r=1) -- "'A lot of commerce begins with Google and has for the last decade,' said [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at the New York University Stern School of Business. 'They have converted this into an incredibly profitable advertising business. But I’ve seen them make steps to get closer to the actual retail process.'"

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Additional coverage appeared on [The Boston Globe](http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/04/12/buying-faucet-amazon-add-handyman/As23VUe5YFjWIAm5kOpMXN/story.html).