It now provides breaking news from 25,000 sources and sends a billion clicks a month to publishers.
Last December, when the Hunger Site had been up about six months, it was getting more than eight million clicks a month, generating about $40,000 for the food program from each of that month's dozen business sponsors for a total of $480,000.
Those 4 billion clicks a month are a gift.
Google's response: Hey, we send out 4 billion clicks a month to news sites.
"Most larger brands and publishers that work with us are driving hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of clicks a month into their content through Amplify".
The company says that by next calendar quarter they'll be scoring over a billion clicks a month, so there are clearly some other large partners working with the company that haven't been announced.
Google sends news sites 4 billion clicks a month, and Schmidt says it wants to assist the media industry in coming up with new ways to make money from their content.
Founded in 2008, Skimlinks now processes 110 million clicks a month on over 700,000 sites, including AVForums, WordPress, Ning, Technorati and Hearst Digital, driving almost $30 million in consumer sales from over 18,000 merchants across 27 affiliate networks.
Where the president said he is "fighting so hard against the Democrats' plan that would eviscerate Medicare," readers can click through to a September 2017 New York Times report that explains how the opposite is true.
Double click January and click a number.
