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How does Google make money?

wayfarer · 2005-01-07 20:08:18

Is it just from sponsers whose links are shown on the right-hand side after a search?

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07-01-2005 9:08pm

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wayfarer

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Is it just from sponsers whose links are shown on the right-hand side after a search?

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#2 07-01-2005 9:13pm
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#3 07-01-2005 9:47pm
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Also for being the engine that powers the "search" functions on other sites, such as AOL search etc

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#4 07-01-2005 9:53pm
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I imagine most of it is from adwords. You register a search term for your site, and pay whatever you think its worth (say $100). If someone searches for that word, your site comes up at the top of the list. But then someone else can come along with the same word and pay $101. They'll appear higher in the list. So companies can get caught in a bidding war to appear highest in the list. I imagine there are companies paying 4 or 5 figures (a month!) for certain words!

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#5 11-01-2005 11:46am
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I remember the time I had Google's adwords on my website it was costing me Euro 100 a month. So then I qualified for google's adsence Campaign, and one was nearly paying for the other then! Great!

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