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How much money does Gmail actually make? Whenever I open up Gmail, I am way too busy to be looking at ads. I'm sure there's a non-zero number of people clicking on ads, but as far as I'm concerned Google is mostly providing free IMAP service with a nice web interface and great uptime.


Not sure how accurate this is...

http://seekingalpha.com/article/196953-youtube-much-more-imp...

"...we estimate that Gmail had revenue per 1,000 page views of 6 cents in 2005 which increased to about 30 cents in 2009."


I figure multiplied by a huge number of users it adds up nicely. And don't forget the spam filtering.


you think someone visiting Hacker News is their target market? or target market for almost 99%[1] of ads?

[1] out of blue :)




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