Diesel

Great company from an user's point of view - love my free G Mail, mobile mail, calendar, shared docs etc - and their search engine is clearly The Daddy.

That's a lot of dosh though - how do they make it and what do they charge so as your company name comes up first etc? Not much to be gleaned from Goggling this

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richs2891

I guess they make the cash by advertising ?? But $1billion ! thats is serious cash!

Richard

NotoriousREV

Put it this way, the company I work for spends 6 figures every month with Google. At one time, Google traffic was responsible for about 60% of our income and we're a £100M company.

Diesel

Serious spend! Is that for the ads on the right that try and key in to what you are searching for [and generally are for other search engines like Kelkoo, e-bay or anyone else who seem rarely to have what you are looking for!]

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Petem95

They are huge, majority of people going online must be exposed to some sort of google-owned site/product be in the search engine, google toolbar, youtube etc etc.

I'm surprised they haven't bought ebay yet!

SlimJ_2005

They also have that new Google Checkout thing, same as Paypal, bound to take off and do well... Anything Google these days will make money! I have read that Ebay have banned the use of Google Checkout already!

Why would they buy Ebay? I'm sure if they really wanted to they could build there own auction system to give Ebay a bit of competition!

SiDHEaD

G-Bay

Petem95

ebay is massive - there are other online auction sites like qxl.com, but they seem to have lost ground to ebay not gained. Why would anyone sell on another site which has far less exposure?

Saying that if they dont buy ebay google might be powerful enough to get their own auction site off the ground. I have no doubt they've looked into one option or the other - ebay is HUGE and will continue to get bigger for sometime.

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

It would be really nice for ebay to have some competition. We all know that ebay of late has not really helped its customers during disputes, in spite of charging higher fees

Competition would help sort that

SlimJ_2005

Good point, but Hotmail was massive so why do GMail? I have both and I prefer Googles offering personally.

As for creating there own ebay type system, they could probably tie it all in with there search engine and advertising systems, so in theory it could get one hell of a lot of exposure!

mamoon2

The same guys that started Google aslo started Paypal so in a way they already have their fingers up Ebay's bottom

Chris L

You sure about that? Google was setup by Larry Page & Sergey Brin. Paypal was nothing to do with them.

TopBanana

He might be sure but he's completely wrong!

TopBanana

If you have a gmail account, people with hotmail can still email you. If you list your auction on qxl, noone will see it. That's the difference.

mamoon2

My bad! i read that somewhere recently. oh well.