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False history. The Applied Semantics software was not needed to "generate 99% of its revenues at IPO time". They owned the trademark "AdSense", but the actual
by paul 16y ago
False history.
The Applied Semantics software was not needed to "generate 99% of its revenues at IPO time". They owned the trademark "AdSense", but the actual software used by Google was written by Google. Also, the product known as AdSense (at that time) was just for content targetted ads, not the search ads which produce most of the profits, so his bit of trivia is actually double wrong.
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- staunch 16y agoAny idea if PageRank was named after Larry rather than Web Pages?
- nostrademons 16y agoRumor has it that's true, unless Google itself is lying: http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html
- zeroplus1 16y agoThis is from an article about the Google press release when they bought A.S.: " Google said that Applied Semantics' products and engineering team will strengthen Google's search and advertising programs, including its "fast-growing content-targeted advertising offering"" . At the time, Applied Semantics had a license deal with Overture, which was also doing content-targeted advertising and AS software was used to enable it." My guess is whatever Google had in place was significantly enhanced by the A.S. software.
- paul 16y agoYour guess is wrong.