# How does  Google  make  money?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-google-make-money/231552>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 28, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-google-make-money/231552 "2004-02-28T00:37:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![nuthinboutnuthin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@nuthinboutnuthin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuthinboutnuthin)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-google-make-money/231552/1 "2004-02-28T00:37:07Z")

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How does Google make money?

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**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-google-make-money/231552/2 "2004-02-28T00:45:42Z")

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[http://www.google.com/ads/](http://www.google.com/ads/)  
[http://www.google.com/services/](http://www.google.com/services/)

Pretty much those two.

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**Author:** ![nuthinboutnuthin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/96bed5/32.png) [@nuthinboutnuthin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nuthinboutnuthin)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-google-make-money/231552/3 "2004-02-28T00:59:01Z")

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Cool…

nuthin I appreciate more than just "the straight dope on a question…

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-google-make-money/231552/4 "2004-02-28T01:59:12Z")

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I was just updating my firms google ad program today, actually.

Yep, we’re some of those little blue boxes off to the side.

It’s actually very reasonable. But the returns vary enormously from month to month.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-google-make-money/231552/5 "2004-02-28T02:11:21Z")

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However they do it, they do it pretty well.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google’s creators) are two of the newbies on the Forbes 400.