World according to Google
Steven Levy in a Newsweek story on the phenomenon of Google and Googling and what the future holds for the company that is now #4 in terms of traffic, and launching new ways to organize and find information each month, it seems:
Since it’s free to users, how does Google rake in bucks? License fees from places like Yahoo or AOL. Corporate sales—big operations pay as much as a half-million dollars to use Google technology to search their own information. And for as little as $20,000, moderate enterprises can buy Google in a Box, a pizza-size server. But the bulk of the company’s revenues (estimated at $100 million this year, and growing at a 100 percent rate) come from the much-maligned category of advertising.