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wacky racer

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41,290 posts

276 months

Wednesday 8th June 2005
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4072772.stm

FourWheelDrift

92,266 posts

313 months

Wednesday 8th June 2005
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I really do fail to see how they make vast sums of money, ok they have paid clickable hotlinks on the right hand side of the page but the main listing is just from trawling the net.

BBC said:

Google makes most of its money from the sale of advertising that sits alongside its search results.


Granted they get a lot of hits
BBC said:

Initially, Google got 10,000 queries per day compared with 200 million today.

But how many actually click on the paid links? I've never clicked on one of the paid links because it's usually Fleabay adverts saying, "Look here for excellent deals on (whatever you've just searched for on Google)"

How can they be valued so high?

>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Wednesday 8th June 19:13

parrot of doom

23,075 posts

263 months

Wednesday 8th June 2005
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Because enough people click on the links.....