The Adsense program will very likely soon be the biggest money earner. This is really not a 'search engine' dependant revenue stream. No matter how you get to a page with Adsense, Google still makes money if you click on the ad. so even if MSN were to displace Google in search Google would still have a great business model. Google doesn't disclose the fraction of revenue that they make from the Adsense program but they do report that their 'network partners' contributed 48% of total revenue in 3rd quarter of 2004.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/4045.htm
That was a 120% over the year before and most of the increase was probably due to Adsense.
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The Adsense program will very likely soon be the biggest money earner. This is really not a 'search engine' dependant revenue stream. No matter how you get to a page with Adsense, Google still makes money if you click on the ad. so even if MSN were to displace Google in search Google would still have a great business model. Google doesn't disclose the fraction of revenue that they make from the Adsense program but they do report that their 'network partners' contributed 48% of total revenue in 3rd quarter of 2004. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/4045.htm That was a 120% over the year before and most of the increase was probably due to Adsense.