All the money investors have gotten from Google has been in capital gains (i.e. buying low, selling high). There's nothing illegal or nefarious about that. In f

All the money investors have gotten from Google has been in capital gains (i.e. buying low, selling high). There's nothing illegal or nefarious about that. In fact, it's extremely common, most stock investors gains will be from the underlying equity increasing in value. Dividends are just distributions that the company pays from it's available cash.