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- HeDiggMe, on 07/17/2009, -0/+32Always better to be the broker than to be the advertiser.
- CasinoJack, on 07/17/2009, -2/+33£900,000 profit from £3.3 billion revenue? Methinks you missed a few zeros in your description.
- wallclimber, on 07/17/2009, -3/+20Perhaps Google depends on those millions and millions of windows/IE users that don't know how to block ads. Kind of fitting, don't you think?
- pault107, on 07/17/2009, -0/+12Umm, no, TechRadar is a British based site, therefore they use British Pounds.
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -0/+11Even though TechRadar's domain name ends in .com instead of .co.uk, it's a UK site. Visit their homepage and look at the page title, or read their footer. So, they're primarily targeting a UK audience.
- TheUngod, on 07/17/2009, -1/+11So advertising is like Mcdonalds? Adding 10 million pounds daily?
- pathouston22, on 07/17/2009, -0/+10Yup. We will revenue about $3 million this year, with all our sales coming from leads from search engines or repeat customers. And we're increasing sales 20-30% annually, even during a recession.
- pathouston22, on 07/17/2009, -2/+10My small company (15 employees) spends about $200k a year on Google advertising. Last time I talked with our Google rep, she told me some companies can spend that much IN A SINGLE DAY.
Ridiculous. - Calcio, on 07/17/2009, -3/+11Google vs World - Google wins by KO
- ngonzales80, on 07/17/2009, -9/+16If everyone used Add Block programs, there would be no money in maintaining web pages. All the great content on the web would disappear, including Digg.
People who use Add Block programs aren't seeing the big picture. - pault107, on 07/17/2009, -2/+9The tiny majority of people that use ad block programs would very rarely click on an ad anyway. It would only have a major impact on revenues if ad block functionality was added to mainstream browsers by default, which is extremely unlikely to happen.
- jrobbi, on 07/17/2009, -14/+20Use Add Block it blocks everything will never have to worry about a ad again.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/186 ... - inactive, on 07/17/2009, -1/+6I see what you did there, and I'm lovin' it.
- Idrive, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5I'm glad they earn that in advertising...keeps all the services I use from them free!
- jasdf, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5Is it worth it?
- mrpunman, on 07/17/2009, -2/+6But how will Google survive without an Ad.
- Spanq, on 07/17/2009, -1/+5I don't mind ads. I just don't like Web pages that feel the need to show me 7 of the same ones while trumping the content I'm trying to view.
- pathouston22, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4Nah, just where I work. I do have my own company on the side, but I don't make enough from that to spend $200k. Yet :P
- Jerky1312, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Here he is talking about the company he is working for. In the other post, he is referring to the company he himself owns on the side.
- NodOfficer, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4Glorious taxes!
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -2/+5Indeed, I hate pesky addition. It must be stopped, so that subtraction can reign supreme!
- Jimmylecroy21, on 07/17/2009, -2/+5Thats what? $5,979,323,055 a year. ***** me.......
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Digg has PMs?
- Gluttony, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3I love nearly everything Google has made. Everything from it's browser, search engine, Earth, and more. Google deserves to be the top.
- 3tcp, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3Profit margins are not slim but they spend a lot of money on developing new stuff. If their revenue fell they would just cut their venture type developments in order to stay in the black.
- mrBitch, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2good question, and good answer... +1 to both of you.
- MadHarvey, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3It is ***** mind boggling that anybody clicks on Internet adds anymore. Who are these people? I don't know a single person who as ever clicked on a single google ad on purpose.
I mean, the ads must get results if companies are still paying for them, but I just don't see it... - drifter, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3Your small company? As in yours?
- jawbreaker4fs, on 07/17/2009, -2/+4It's a lot less, according to WikiAnswers: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_does_GOOGLE_ear ...
- inactive, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2So when are we getting a chunk of that money they're making from selling all of our info to advertisers. You know that cash is paying their bandwidth bills several times over.
- MiguelGomez, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Nice catch.
- pathouston22, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2Tada! Jerky got it right.
But good memory on my posts talking about business anshuman ;) - Danby123, on 07/17/2009, -5/+7Exactly. Add Block is killing the free internet.
- anshuman, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2you know ngonzales , there is thing called whitelisting in Adblockplus and you can whitelist good sites.
I think the Adblock doesnt remind people to whitelist sites they regularly visit, that should be done. I think even the website maintainer can code script to remind regular visitor to Whitelist his site if they like the content.
just my opinion . - Sixagon, on 07/17/2009, -2/+4I'd rather have $240 worth of pudding.
- thathappycat, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2I wish I knew as well. I can only guess that they RARELY use the internet and aren't familiar with ads.
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2IE8: Ctrl+Shift+F
It still sucks. - latropa, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1Even better is serving up your actual content so they look like ads. No reason to give the freeloaders incentive to come back. Saves bandwidth.
- ikartik90, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1Can you share just 1/100 of it with me a month? pllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....
- pault107, on 07/17/2009, -2/+3Oops, I meant the tiny *minority*.
- Philmer, on 07/17/2009, -2/+3Developing Skynet takes time, and especially money. Remember, Google doesn't have scrap terminator someone found in a factory back in the 80s. My cousin, who works at Google, told me that one of his colleagues, that was informed by his boss's secretary, which was, in turn, told by a whistle blower on the board of directors that "he won't have to be back".
- mrBitch, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1RE: " .. only IDIOTS click in ads IMO "
Those "idiots" you mention are all (over 90%), using Windows and IE 6 / 7 / 8 (at a total of 54.4%) :
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/05/since-march-i ... - 1807, on 07/17/2009, -1/+2http://tinyurl.com/ksmrbt
- anshuman, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1Hey Pathouston ,
Whats the exact truth ? here you say you spend on advertising but somewhere else you say you dont . http://digg.com/design/The_Roadmap_To_Becoming_A_P ...
Whats the exact truth buddy? - pathouston22, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1I'm not going to share what industry I work in, it's very small and niche. But it's part of the whole green movement and is making good money off it.
- inactive, on 07/28/2009, -0/+1still idiots...
- Plonkely, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1At the time of checking, 10 million British pounds = 16 million U.S. dollars (rounded down)
You were just slightly out. - scriptcoder, on 07/17/2009, -1/+2Google must work or people would not tolerate the things that you talk about.
No one has to use it you know. But they do so it must bring in more then it "frauds" out. - inactive, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1yeah man I wonder the same thing.. I never clicked on an ad.. I just installed a flashblocker and most adds are gone. only IDIOTS click in ads IMO
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