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Some numbers from 2009 say 1.18 cents/search: https://web.archive.org/web/20110201052634/http://billwarner.posterous.com/new-blog-post-how-much-does-a-single-s
by ivank 11y ago
Some numbers from 2009 say 1.18 cents/search:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110201052634/http://billwarner.posterous.com/new-blog-post-how-much-does-a-single-search-c https://web.archive.org/web/20110201052634/http://billwarner...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110938 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110938
- devsquid 11y agoYea but the question is impossible to answer. Google would have had to balance many differ factors, both of which would have changed as they grew larger.
- Moru 11y agoIf google started taking money for searching they would quickly be marginalized.
- bottled_poe 11y agoHow exactly? I thought we are assuming that advertising would become worthless if everyone was blocking the ads...