The growth of YouTube’s advertising business is one of the few successes to be found in what was a painful set of quarterly results for Alphabet. The company’s growth rate has been obliterated by Covid-19’s stranglehold on its other advertising segments, plummeting down to 0%, compared to 22% in Q2 2019. Although disappointing in isolation, the relative successes of Google’s contemporaries – Amazon, Apple, and Facebook – rubs more salt into the wounds. Just hours after each company had its CEO interrogated by the US Congress, Big Tech dropped results for the first financial quarter to be entirely shaped by Covid-19. While Facebook is also dependent on advertising, it seems that Google has borne the brunt of a shortfall in…