A Google of solutions

The world’s most successful search engine provides a host of ideas for developing the Arab world’s tenuous presence on the internet | Business Today Egypt

You have likely heard of Google, the popular search engine, and run a search query over the website for news about your favorite actor or for the names of new job applicants to know a little bit more about them than they included in their resumés. 

But you might not know that the company, founded in 1998, finally made an IPO on NASDAQ last August, and is now worth roughly $55 billion larger than the market capitalization of General Motors and Ford combined. How is this possible if people just click their way through the website without paying a penny?