tedster - 6:22 pm on Jun 8, 2009 (gmt 0)

Thats $223, quite big.

Isn't part of the reason it's so big is you are using the total operating expense for Google, Inc - the whole company. I'm sure that operating expenses for just Google Search would be a smaller slice of the total pie.

and to answer your closing question - I'm probably like most of the searching public. I don't want to pay anything at all for web search.