>nobody can compete with free Yes you can, just make yours also free and put up ads like DuckDuckGo. >the amount of money being earned by said advertising is

>nobody can compete with free Yes you can, just make yours also free and put up ads like DuckDuckGo. >the amount of money being earned by said advertising is private. Google is a publicly traded company with a legal obligation to disclose financial data to their shareholders as a matter of public record. You can go read their quarterly earnings reports stretching back years.