How does pricing for Google’s ad network wrok?

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If I, for example, click a google ad for a local car dealership; does Google record that click and charge a specific amount to the advertiser? Or is pricing calculated based on other factors like time spent on the site after ad clicks?

I’m very curious about the microeconomics of online advertising, like how much is getting spent to expose me to certain ads. But all information I’ve found so far is pretty vague

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For search & display advertisements typically it’s a PPC model online advertisers use where let’s say I click on an advertisement, the advertiser pays x amount to Google for my click on their ad. How is it determined whose advertisement shows up when I search something? How that works is the advertiser bids on keywords that they feel confident will attract users from their preferred target market to their site in hopes of getting leads which are potential buyers in hopes of actually converting them into customers.

For a ball park range for pricing, in Q1 of 2018 the avg CPC(cost per click, which is how much you actually pay per click) was 0.75c. Bids among advertisers are influenced by different factors such as ad rank of competitors, quality score, your own ad rank, etc.

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