How does search engine companies like yahoo or google make profits? its really mas profits!?

Advertising, yes, but not as simple as that. What sets online advertising apart, especially Google and Yahoo, is the ability to give better data to measure yield on advertising. Here's how it works: 1. Comany signs on for the advertising program, i.e. Adwords. 2. Bids for keywords and location on search result page. 3. Pays Google or Yahoo 10-30 cents everytime some user clicks on their sponsored links. Google and Yahoo compete with each other for quality of their search product: more accurate search results combined with sponsored links that match the search query. When 100 million people search using Google, enough of them click on sponsored links to make the shareholders of Google very pleased with their results.

yeah sponsors!

1. advertisements 2. it's search engine is just entry page to their other web based business.

Ads, ads, and more ads. Companies pay big bucks for a high-visibility spot like Google or Yahoo. Think of it like the superbowl for the internet.

Advertising. Google also lets you pay them to have your company top the search results.