haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine everywherewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squareRedditWanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoAnd how much money did google make off of our collective data/ads by being the default engine? That’s the real question
minus-squareSandySocks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThey had $256.74B in revenue that year, so I’m sure they more than made up for it.
minus-squareRedditWanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoIf only people understood money like they understood time, they’d see how absurd of a number that is and billionaires wouldn’t exist. 256 thousand seconds is about 3 days 256 million seconds is about 8 years. 256 billion seconds is 8,126 years.
And how much money did google make off of our collective data/ads by being the default engine? That’s the real question
They had $256.74B in revenue that year, so I’m sure they more than made up for it.
If only people understood money like they understood time, they’d see how absurd of a number that is and billionaires wouldn’t exist.
256 thousand seconds is about 3 days
256 million seconds is about 8 years.
256 billion seconds is 8,126 years.