Google is the World's Most Successful Ad-Funded Software Company

Google represents 91.4percent of all global searches, according to Pingdom, 98.3 percent of mobile searches, 69 percent of online advertising and 59 percent of web analytics. Google's YouTube business represents 53 percent of all online embedded video and audio.

Then there's Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Docs, Blogger, Google Maps and Google's own content delivery network. Google is working on a Chrome operating system, has released Google TV and operates its own public domain name server network as well.

The point, Pingdom notes, is that Google has has an enormous presence on the Web and the Internet, and advertising drives it. Among other things, Google the world's most successful ad-funded software company.

How Google dominates the Web