Ok, but who, other than Google, does actually make a lot of money on the web? Yahoo is struggling and most of what they offer is generic crap monetizing their old brand.<p>I have no idea whether Facebook makes any money. It can't be easy judging by their desperate attempts to trick users into doing things that are bad for them.<p>Twitter should make tons of money considering their service is trivial (I know it's not trivial to operate at that scale) and their mindshare huge. But how much money do they make?<p>Content creators like journalists, authors or musicians find it very difficult to make money as well.<p>Amazon does make money, but they are a retailer, not a web company I would say.<p>In my view, it's an open question whether the ad funded web is a viable business model for a lot of companies or just a niche in which very very few big players make all the money.