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How's this for some figures on making some cash, this is UK specific ONLY, excluding all other countries and the US, which is where google's the largest

How Big Is Google? Here's Another Measure

Rory Cellan-Jones, a blogger for the BBC, calculates an interesting statistic from Google's earnings release yesterday.

Google earned USD 803 million, about GBP 407 million, in the United Kingdom in the first quarter. If you assume that rate won't grow, that makes GBP 1.6 billion for the year. And since Google's British earnings are up 40 percent from a year ago, it is a safe bet it will grow.

That means Google will overtake the ITV television network as the biggest seller of advertising in Britain this year, Mr. Cellan-Jones figures. ITV sold about GBP 1.5 billion of advertising last year.

Britain's biggest commercial television business - the original "license to print money" - is about to be overtaken by an American upstart which only arrived in the UK in 2001.

That's a fair amount of money, stjoe