Google has explained on its blog where it gets its money from. Sort of. “Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we’re sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products – AdSense for content and AdSense for search.”
I strongly recommend you to watch The Google Toilet: SuperNews! from Current TV.
There is an extra double-quote character at the end of the url.
Certainly makes the profit margins of some companies that are regularly in the spotlight for their “overpriced” products look mediocre…
Not sure I see that. When I think of “fat” margins, like Apple-fat margins, I think of 100 – 200% easily (i.e. on hardware).
Google’s Adsense content publishers, the most critical, get 68% revenue share
While search partners, get 50%
So Google’s 32% profit from each publisher seems reasonable to me.
You are a Troll. Apple’s margin is 21% not 100 or 200%.
http://qc.finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AAPL
Edited 2010-05-25 15:58 UTC
It’s not profit margin, you understand it wrong. It’s the share for publishers. They also pay their staff. Their profit margin is unknown but it is less than 32%. It would be 32% if Google had $0 cost (no employee, no server, no search engine, nothing)
What we know is that the publisher takes 68%, that is all.
Edited 2010-05-25 12:42 UTC