http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4780648.stm

…and that’s a lot of cash considering;

“Americans alone did more than 2.7 billion searches via Google in January 2006″

and as digg.com user beelz commented:

2.7 billion * .12 = three hundred twenty-four million

…and that’s a whole lotta cash for just searching! That does not include revenue generated from users clicking on the sponsored links or the Adsense links.