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Sorry, but do you think Google (prior to turning on AdWords) was a ponzi scheme?

• 220V_USKettle 9y ago
  Prior to adwords, what was their business model? Go.com w/ Overture, acquired by Yahoo - that had PPC offerings before Google even had a monetization strategy.
• tim333 9y ago
  >Both Brin and Page had been against using advertising pop-ups in a search engine, or an "advertising funded search engines" model, and they wrote a research paper in 1998 on the topic while still students. They changed their minds early on and allowed simple text ads. Sounds like a road map. (Wikipedia)
  • kozak 9y ago
    But here we should remember what internet ads were like before the appearance of textual Google ads. They were image banners of standardized sizes, much more intrusive and way more pointless.
    • jmvoodoo 9y ago
      I think that depends on your definition of intrusive.
    • deleted 9y ago
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• InclinedPlane 9y ago
  Sorry, but did google run out of funding?
• taneq 9y ago
  Did they have no road map to profitability before they just accidentally happened to turn on AdWords, which they had built for no reason?