I think the google founders are like amongst the richest people in the world, but how do they make their money?
I read a thing last night about the founder of Facebook. His site is valued at 3 billion dollars.. Bill gates actually bought 1.6% of the company for a few hundred million.. Its crazy, this kid that started it is only 23 and is a Harvard dropout..
If you look at Google's model they actually make their money by being "reciprocal link exchange brokers" and calling it "advertising". Quite a stunt! The only ones that advertise on Google are webmasters right? So they put my link on your site, and put your link on my site, and charge both of us! Brilliant! If you want to bypass that just put your link on mine at BungeeBones.com It will be free at first (until it gets busy) and then you might be moved or asked to pay. But if you want to swap then subscribe to my directory and place it on your site (like placing Adsense code) and I will share the income from paid links with you.
I'd say Google made their fortune from advertisements like adsense and adwords plus they are also venturing out into alternative energy.
Facebook is actually valued by microsoft for $15 billion so maybe Zuckerberg stake in it is worth 3 billion dollars.
A: They take it from YOU Seriously...you need to ask???? Every click on any ad is money in their pocket. Every Adwords customer pays them every month because they (we) pay for our clicks.