Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. The new richest man in the world is Carlos Slim.
They went public selling their stock shares and the Google brothers own a hell of a lo of stock there for they pretty much made a killing....as for the company they get money from people who want to advertise on google
I am not sure but I guess from advertisers they earning amount of money. Example if someone wants their material in search engine that too in google they pay for it and google earns and those who earning from adsense can receive some % of it.
Im assuming your some kinda joker or seriously backwards!!!! If you cant work out how Google are rich you shouldnt be let loose on a PC. Too dangerous!!
there is a interesting thing someone pointed out: Notice how Google is actually the only place "on the net" where noone would file a copyright claim against Google, since the pages it crawls are INDEED saved on their servers. So..ANY page, including yours or mine are on Google's servers. Not enough - YOUR content and everyone else's site is ALSO used so Google can make MONEY with the help of your your content. (from people looking for keywords So let's sue them G.
I was going to say their stock but somebody beat me to it. I didn't think anybody would actually take recognition to their stock being like $600+ a share....