how does google make money?

CyberGhost

hey!

google are very rich right?

I was wondering how did they make of that money?

I don't see adverts on their website, they are a free search engine!

then how?

Thanks!

Fenster

Advertising, mostly through sponsored links. Search for something like "Ad Aware" and look at the first few links.

BloodBath

They do advertise.

Look to the right on most of your searches you will see a small list of sponsered links. They pay google to stick them there.


BloodBath

daveirl

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Cabaal

They also allow other sites to display google syndication adverts (think boards does this)
There whole plan seems to work because txt adverts ain't hated as much as banner ads

jk2001

Yea, just check the top of this page... there's 1-2 ads by Google. Anytime you click on it the advertiser pays a fee to Google... and this is split between Google and Boards Great concept Google came up with these - allows non-commercial sites like Boards to generate some revenue to keep the site running

jayo

Cabaal

Also the txt adverts on googles own sites are not that annoying compared to yahoo, for example compare gmail adverts

to what you see at mail.yahoo.com when you login, which is more annoying

CyberGhost

aha!

so google hosts this ads, and the website that displays it get's it's cut for the fee that google gets?

I'm sorry I'm a little bit slow now, I'm wearing a towel!

Fenster

CyberGhost wrote:

aha!

so google hosts this ads, and the website that displays it get's it's cut for the fee that google gets?

I'm sorry I'm a little bit slow now, I'm wearing a towel!

Pretty much yeah.

And I don't think we needed to know about the towel.

drrnwbb

the also have corporate searches for within companies on their own data.

see the link on the right hand side: http://www.google.com/services/

dw

Fenster

drrnwbb wrote:

the also have corporate searches for within companies on their own data.

see the link on the right hand side: http://www.google.com/services/

dw

KDE are emulating this for Linux with their new filesystem. Supposed to be really hot stuff.

CyberGhost

Fenster wrote:

And I don't think we needed to know about the towel.

it's just a joke from The Simpsons

Cabaal

CyberGhost wrote:

it's just a joke from The Simpsons

its bad you actually had to explain the joke..
:rolleyes:

CyberGhost

Cabaal, you actually have to learn when to put the commas :rolleyes:

CyberGhost

btw, the joke was funny!
:rolleyes:

Cabaal

now
why would I want to do a thing like that

CyberGhost

because, not so clever people like me, may not understand the sentance

Fenster

*turns in his "I am a geek!"* badge

CyberGhost

I prefer to be geek with brains, then a "cool dude" with no brains!

daveirl

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Syth

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Aren't they dropping WinFS in the next windows?
And I remeber reading somewhere that Microsoft have been promising something like WinFS for abou 10 years or so. Can't find the link right now.

Fenster

Maybe not KDE directly then, my bad, but I know that some crowd are working on putting in a Google-style filesystem for KDE. I'll have a gander around later for the link.

unkel

And the new google mail will spy through all your emails and based on that, will dish out "appropriate" ads customised to you

I don't care, gmail rocks