How does google make money with google chrome?

How does Google make money with Google+ and Google Chrome?

• Can someone provide a way to think about market size and how to estimate revenue?

• Answer:

  Google makes money from ads, mostly on search. Almost everything else is designed to enhance that business. Google Plus is about increasing the value of search to users. Provide them with more personalized search responses, and they will search more frequently, giving more opportunities for advertising. Add personal endorsements to ads (your friend +1ed this company), and people will click on ads more frequently, and are more likely to buy a product at the end of that transaction. This increases the value of those ads for advertisers. Google Chrome is about enhancing the accessibility of search (and other sites where ads go). A faster, more standards compliant, more powerful browser which will always work correctly with Google products means more people find search easier to use and faster, which in turn means they will search more frequently. Additionally, it means that access to search is not solely through channels competitors control (eg Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari). In both cases, these are strategic products, where the business value is entirely dependent on the rest of the business. If one wanted to calculate their value, one would start by assessing their possible impact on the search business, and also consider the competitive threats to that search business, and how these products address those threats.