From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 2 03:01:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B8E16A418 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 03:01:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerry@syslog.org) Received: from www2.stelesys.com (www2.stelesys.com [69.61.61.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA22A13C459 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 03:01:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerry@syslog.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=www.stelesys.com) by www2.stelesys.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JL87G-000BIk-Fl; Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:28:26 -0500 Received: from 76.20.240.110 ([76.20.240.110]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user jerry@syslog.org) by www.stelesys.com with HTTP; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:28:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4384.76.20.240.110.1201919306.squirrel@www.stelesys.com> In-Reply-To: <47A3D108.109@pacific.net.sg> References: <47A30E1D.4030609@pacific.net.sg> <47A3B9A3.9080505@pacific.net.sg> <47A3D108.109@pacific.net.sg> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 21:28:26 -0500 (EST) From: jerry@syslog.org To: "Erich Dollansky" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - www2.stelesys.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [26 6] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - syslog.org Cc: chat@freebsd.org, KAYVEN RIESE Subject: Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:01:36 -0000 Erich said: > I also wonder how Google earns so much monez with its search engine. Is > it just the adds? Is it reallz this simple? > > On the other side, Google must be so much better than other search > engines to get so much more hits to earn money with this free service > via the adds. > > The problem I see is how the search results are influenced bz the search > engine in use. > > Erich Google earns nearly all of it's money from advertisements. Google has the defacto standard advertising platform on the Internet. Most people do not understand how large the Internet economy based on AD revenue really is. Read a bit through http://forums.digitalpoint.com - it's enlightening and frightening. Now, Google absolutely dominates the search market, with more than half of all searches. I think part of the reason is the simplicity and strength that they entered the market and the current venacular - when you search for something or someone, you Google it or Google him. You don't Yahoo it. The other part is the algorithm. They have historically had the most relevant results for a term. I would say that in many ways, both MS and Yahoo! give better results that google for most of the searches that I try. I believe the major reason for that is that *everyone* and his grandmother is trying to game Google to get their splog to the top of the google rankings. Regards, Jerry http://www.syslog.org