July 19, 2011 05:21
Google is a veritable giant of the internet industry. What started out in January 1996 as a small research project by Stanford grad students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has now become a multi-billion dollar enterprise, with over one million servers in data centers around the world, processing an estimated one billion search requests or 24 petabytes of user-generated data daily.
Google operations are gigantic and they require a gargantuan sum of money to run. But how does a search engine company like Google generate revenue? The answer to this lies in an infographics created by Wordstream.com. We hope you’ll find the same interesting:
Selling keywords is apparently a very lucrative business!
There are a lot of things we don’t know about Google, but as Thomas Edison once said: “we don’t know the millionth part of one percent about anything. But we do not let our ignorance about these things deprive us of their use.” The same is true for Google. Most of us really don’t know the millionth part of one percent about it. But what we do know is enough to enable us to use it, and use it both intensively and extensively.
