[Arkinsaw]

Google.com gets about 100 million page impressions per day right now. With a penny per page, Google would make $1 million a day, or something like $350 million per year.

So the assumption is that if Google started charging a penny a page that they would still get 100 million page impressions a day. No loss of viewership?

Thats not a very bright assumption.

[isthisnickcool]

So the assumption is that if Google started charging a penny a page that they would still get 100 million page impressions a day. No loss of viewership?

Ah, but Google does not "own" those pages in the first place. And that opens up another can or worms.