What’s Google News worth? $100 million

Google’s advertising and marketing teams are geniuses. This strategy really works for a strong and familiar brand.

I would like to read more about Google’s strategies in advertising.

Alicia
The Wall Street Survivor
http://wallstreetsurvivor.com

Dear Google…how about cuil.com

The elephant in the room is how much of the $100M is taken out of newspapers pockets?

In theory, Google News should drive traffic to the newspaper sites but in some cases, the excerpts may be enough.

KK, I am an indian american and I am not sure what point you are trying to make. I am sure the Intel Pentium chip wasn’t “invented” by one person. It was probably a collaborative effort involving many many people. There may have been a single engineer of Indian decent who played some lead role. So what? welcome to the human race and welcome to America and stop thinking in terms of race and nationalities.

btw according to wikipedia the hilltop algorithm was patented by two people: Krishna Bharat and George A. Mihăilă

Rebecca, your argument is a bit confusing. Are you saying that in order for Google to make money from Health users then using Google to search, they have to review your health info? That is absolutely false. Yes, they will be storing your search logs (which no human will ever be analyzing closely), but the health data is completely separate. It is true that Google as a whole is not a subject matter expert in health info management, but if you think that they didn’t do their due diligence in hiring people that are, then you don’t know much about Google. They are cocky enough about wanting to be the best at everything, that they invest a lot in bringing in the right people. The goal of Health is to do something that privatized medicine has never put the time, energy and money into – making universally accessible health records. Google has the cash in hand to do it, and even if this isn’t the be-all-end-all product, it will probably be copied and iterated on by others, and could end up getting us to a system where you don’t have to have your shots records in a little book in your filing cabinet, and you don’t have to have your archaic doctor’s office copy your records at $.10/page.

Josh,

Unlike many other immigrant community, Indians in the America who make it big are those who are born and educated in India, spend good 20-25 yrs in India before migrating to US.

Now, name one dutch who was born and educated in one of those dutch lands and made it really big ?

KK,

Welcome to the melting pot of America. You don’t see my work being credited to the American Dutch heritage.

By the way, I work with many Indian Americans and they are all exceptional people.

“If people come to Google for their health records, they’ll end up using the search engine to buy prescriptions, find doctors, whatever. And in the process, Google will cash in.” In order for Google to achieve above and optimize the appropriate $/advertisement then you have to monitor the individuals search- the process of searching then reviewing your health info – will not protect your privacy – it will invite the tracking of your subject matter. Since Google is not a subject matter expert in the managment of health information – they will not spend the resources to provide a quality product that actually provide value to a patient/individual

Better news at http://www.cwebnews.com
International selections are amazing.

Another search engine flying under the radar:

Trendy Newz

A great and useful search engine that is exploding across the country is
http://www.searchtheentirecraigslist.com

The # of searches being done is climbing tremendously as people see how well it woks to help them find what they are looking for.

Goolge news was invented by an Indian American named Krishna Bharat. His Hilltop Algoritmn is what allowed the existence on Google News…

Never seen any American Media Educating its ordinary citizens about these facts which could change the preception and hence foreign policy towards a country…

By the way the Intel’s Pentium chip was invented by another Indian American named as Vinodh Dham…

Another search engine to check out is eZanga.com. eZanga offers high grade search as well as customized PPC ad campaigns. With eZanga’s anti-click fraud technology, Traffic Advisers, fraud is detected real time rather then after the fact, therefore increasing ROI.

I think Google’s revenues and stock prices are more speculative than actually real, the stock is pretty overvalued when its above 500 right now. $100 million in revenue per year eh? That’s another drop in the big Google profit bucket.

Actually David, depending on what method is used to value a company for a sale, a single year’s income could be a valid benchmark. Since the news site’s stock is the same as the search engine, you can’t use shareholder valuation. So, a year’s revenue might be the best method of determination.

@Matt see cookies – they just count how many people go there from the news site
It’s probably possible to work out how much they get paid for the ads they serve to those specific people, so they probably have it to the cent
– imma

I think she’s saying that the news site generates $100M per year for Google. The value of the site itself is therefore a lot more than that.

For the person above (Matt), Do you not think that Google the company that makes billions knowing where people go on the web doesn’t spend millions finding out how many people actually use the Google search engine from Google News? They probably have an entire team that just tracks and studies how many people that use Google News go off to use Google and then go off to click on advertisements.

They funnel people to Search because the Search is right at the top of the News page.

After reading this article my big question is, “how do they know that Google news is funneling visitors to Google search?” Did anybody at this conference ask them that important question?

Does that mean that Yahoo’s news site is worth $100 million also?