Google is harvesting eyeballs for profit

Make You Go Hmm: » Near miss or past midnight on April 15, 1912 for GOOG?: "By far their greatest asset is the search traffic that they wield. If they didn’t have that, they wouldn’t have Adwords/Adsense — couldn’t have them. Because if you think about it, they need that traffic to wield. They need to send that around to get webmasters interested in them. If you get the webmasters on board, you get the webmaster’s traffic — which means eyeballs. And what does Google need for Adwords/Adsense success? Eyeballs."