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> “wow, these people [Yahoo] are idiots, and we're going to roll over them.” From then on, we just kept winning deals and squashing other companies. That was ex
by misterman0 8y ago
> “wow, these people [Yahoo] are idiots, and we're going to roll over them.” From then on, we just kept winning deals and squashing other companies. That was exciting."
I wonder, what kind of deals were Google making at this point in time? What was their product? Sure, they had a web page that could search the internet, but how did they monitize on that? Did they offer custom site search solutions?
- Itaxpica 8y agoYep. Before AdWords, Google’s monetization strategy was fairly hand-wavy and hinged around licensing the tech to be a search provider for other websites. Once they realized how much money could be made by putting ads on searches, the rest is history.
- nepotism2018 8y agoHow is "squashing other companies" exciting, competing is given but squashing sounds beyond that
- acpetrov 8y agoIf you're a hyper competitive person, you probably will want to crush your competitors. And since competitiveness is a must to be CEO, makes sense that this is how the game is played
- utopcell 8y agoI think the comment referred to Inktomi (that had just lost the search deal to Google,) not Yahoo.