[Foundation-l] Left on the Table

Peter Coombe thewub.wiki at googlemail.com
Sat Nov 6 11:02:38 UTC 2010


On 6 November 2010 10:56, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>
>> Anyway, here's some analysis of this very question done back in 2006.
>> Estimates for annual revenue from adverts ranged from $42 billion to
>> $100 billion, and that's without accounting for our growth since then.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-10-30/Wikipedia_valuation
>>
>> Pete / the wub
>
> That's capitalized value, but does reflect an estimate of net annual
> revenue of at least $500 million.
>

Oops! Those are the estimated revenues, but obviously should have been
in *millions* not billions! My mistake.

Pete / the wub



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