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Re:Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search by truculent on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:40AM (#39942257)
Google makes about 200bn per year in advertising revenue (see quarterly figures here: https://searchengineland.com/google-ad-revenue-q4-2023-43704...).

The world’s population is about 7.8bn, with about 60% of people being online (https://ourworldindata.org/internet).

If we assume that about 90% of people use Google, that’s about 4.2bn people using Google search.

200/4.2 = 48 USD per year per person.

So, 120 USD per year is more than the implicit cost of using Google, but it’s in the ballpark. I think the 48 figure would increase if you adjusted for people primarily accessing the internet through facebook, whatsapp, or youtube, which I would guess is quite common.

Re:Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search by PaulRobinson on Friday April 05, 2024 @12:13PM (#39944161)
Kagi claims that Google themselves peg it at 300 USD per user per year.
Re:Cory Doctorow on Kagi Search by truculent on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:15PM (#39946682)
That includes other sources of revenue, I believe; although I could be wrong. Do you have a source?