I was just thinking about this the other day and I really couldn't come up with an answer. If you had full control over the Google homepage for one day, what would you do? Let's just say you had one month to prepare and there wouldn't be any legal trouble. I was thinking this could lead to valuable ideas that could be applied elsewhere but maybe not...
I think it is good now with whatever options they have there. If one day, I might promote maximum of my sites.
Sorry about going off topic , but this is the hottest writer I've ever seen just sexy And about monetizing google. I'd just do what google does when they advertise their sites. They add a link maybe once every 4 months, like when chrome was actually advertised there was a basic link right under the search bar, since there isn't much graphics that distract the reader they are more focused on the words on the page and the search box itself.
The best way of running Google's homepage is like it is now Do you think that Google doesn't know what to do with their homepage? I think that people like Google so much because their homepage is so clean, and if you put lot of advertising on, people will stop using them...