How does Google make money???

[Tseng]

Google is the best search engine I have ever used. Fast and very detailed. Just how does they make money? No pop-up ad, no banners?

How???

 

[SackOfAllTrades]

poor lil children in asian frantically look up website per user query

 

[bearmeat]

EXCEPT when you press "I'm feelin Lucky" that is the Spider monkey's department.

 

[Rendus]

They sell ad space to the right of every search based on keywords that are searched for. Also, I'm pretty sure Yahoo is a good source of income as well (If a search fails to turn up anything in Yahoo's index, it goes to a Yahoo-branded version of Google).

 

[Jfur]

I read that 90% of Yahoo comes from ads...

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

When you search for something there's usually a few text ads on result page that have something to do with what you're searching for. For instance, yesterday I was looking up something on domain hosting and got a text ad above my results for Verio.com, which does something to do with domains, I'm not sure. The ones above your results are more expensive, the ones to the side are cheaper. That's why you usually see bigger companies have the spots above the results.

 

[Elledan]

Two words: sponsored links.

 

[OSUdrunk]

They also license their search technology to other companies for use on their web sites. Ask Jeeves and most other search engines do the same.