Originally Posted by tiger

True but I would bet the real value is in the data. Google is all about gathering data. Gathering surfing and searching data on 70 million per day is worth every penny for them + you can bet w/e they pay on bandwidth is pennies compared to what any of us pay.

Google's goal is gathering information. Everything they do, free wi-fi, free dns, browser, apps everything is all aimed at gathering more data.

Once traffic was king, once content was king, now data is king.