... were $53M apparently. Which is quite a hefty hunk of change for a non-profit organization which distributes its products for free.
Most of the money actually comes from deals Mozilla has brokered with Google for making Goog the default search engine in the Mozilla search toolbar. Which just gives you an indication of how much Google must be making and just how much money is out there in the Internet advertising market.
Google just released its 2006 Zeitgeist, its list of the most popular search terms of the year. Interestingly "Bebo" comes in at number one, strengthening the feeling that it will soon become the number two social networking site.
Also, take note of the number four spot. It does my little provincial heart proud....
Google recently launched an interesting new service that lets anyone define their own vertical search engine. Called Google Custom Search, the service is part of Google Co-Op, Goobe's new push to create API'd search features that users can install on their own sites.
Google Custom Search allows you to define a list of sites that you want it to search. It's quite easy to set up. It didn't take me long at all to define a vertical search engine for Web 2.0 and New Media sites (which you can try out on our sidebar to the right) and put it up on the site.
This is a smart move from Google's perspective in a lot of ways. Obviously, it gives Google inroads to a lot of new and fallow real estate. It also sets up a major challenge to the legions of VC-backed vertical search engine plays that have been popping up recently.
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