How does Google make money?

Answer 1

Google.com makes most of its money from paid advertising. When you do a search on Google.com you'll often see listings at the very top and on the right side. Google.com charges money for those listings. Every time someone clicks on those links, they company that is listed gets charged. The amount varies depending on the competition for that particular key phrase that was searched. Key phrases can be as low as five cents per click, whereas others can be ten dollars or more per click.

Google also runs these ads on websites that participate in Google's AdSense program. The advertisers pay Google for each click, Google keeps some of the money, and passes the rest of the money to the websites that ran the ads.

Google also places ads on other sites that they run, like YouTube and Gmail.

Answer 2

Google makes money by offering its search technology to companies and from the sale of advertising displayed on Google and on other sites across the web