Ads remain propeller of high-profit search engine.
Ads remain the driver of the high-profit search engine, posting 99% of sales, now past $10.5 billion a year.
Though it aims to be the same sort of general interest search service as Google, Bing was engineered to excel in a few popular, high-profit search topics–in effect, Google's Greatest Hits.
Profits for search, chaos everywhere else.
Kenneth Cohen, an Exxon vice president, said oil companies needed the profits to search for more oil and gas.
Yang's reorganization plan called for jettisoning underperforming businesses and wringing more revenue and profits from search advertising.
They're using their profits in search to get into operating systems, into online applications that are free, that threaten these cash-cow businesses like Office and Word and Excel.
Not astonishingly, a cold starting point, where no light and heat is provided, does not constitute a favourable environment and lizards can probably profit by searching for a more favourable patch.
Yahoo's ad system generates less profit from each search than Google's.
"The question is how do you profit from the search results, when they have been given away free".
