Coming into Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) third-quarter earnings report on Tuesday night, there were already signs that growth would be sluggish.

Fellow digital advertising stock Snap said revenue growth slowed to just 6% in its third quarter, and Alphabet management had already warned about macroeconomic uncertainty in its second-quarter earnings report.

Those fears were validated when the Google parent posted third-quarter results that were even worse than expected.  

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