dec 14 p1

Hi All

Busy days leading up to Christmas so this weeks mail will be short, I will try and get out news next week but will not be writing for following 2 weeks. Stats out about Google average CPC has gone up from 53cents to 54cents, they also make about 09 cents per search query and the first? meta-tag lawsuit in the US so no more spamming meta data;

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This Weeks Search Engine News

Google Gets $0.09 per Search John Battelle found some extremely interesting information on Google's business based in part on comScore data. Among the findings:
- Google makes about nine cents per search query
- Two thirds of its revenue comes from domestic sources
- Paid clicks grew seven percent quarter over quarter to 964 million, with a two percent price increase
- Average cost per click was 54 cents, up about two percent for the quarter
- Just over half of all searches included at least one paid listing
- Of those pages with paid listings, a third got at least one paid click.
Source: Marketing vox