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Originally posted by Red+Dec 13 2004, 10:36 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Red @ Dec 13 2004, 10:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-leonk19@Dec 11 2004, 03:26 PM
Speaking of Kelly, and furthermore to touch on a subject that I've wondered about for a while, how do people who start websites make money?
Kelly stated that he'd started something like 5 or 6 websites. My question is, once you start a webpage, how does that generate revenue? I understand that for sites where you sign up for a service and have to pay monthly that that may occur, but for sites like Google, Ebay, etc. where does the generated money come from?
Using Google for instance, it doesn't mean that everytime someone puts in a search the company gets money does it? I know this may sound like a stupid question, but I've just always wondered.
I mean, is the person who owns CalgaryPuck driving a Lexus for making this message board?
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Google makes their money by selling you priority in searches.
As an example Ford will pay Google $$$ to have them come up on the first page of the search that you using their website rather than 50th or whatever. It's sort of like the AAA-Car mufflers, AAAA-Car mufflers method of getting to the top of the car muffler advertisements in yellow pages, but Google charges you money for it.
Same with all other search engines. [/b][/quote]
I'm nitpicking, but Google doesn't sell ranking within their search, only within their paid advertisements.
No one can buy or sell higher ranking within google's organic search results. Lots of people will sell their time and expertise to try and get you higher ranking however.
By definition the difference between a search engine and a directory is the ability to buy your way onto or higher up in the listings.
Interestingly, Google actually gets about half its revenues from ads that are displayed on other sites, not its own.