They didn’t start the ads on day one. Their first big push was the TV ad: https://slate.com/technology/2009/05/google-s-first-ever-tv-campaign.html https://sla

They didn’t start the ads on day one. Their first big push was the TV ad: https://slate.com/technology/2009/05/google-s-first-ever-tv-campaign.html https://slate.com/technology/2009/05/google-s-first-ever-tv-... The “try Chrome” ads for other browsers didn’t start for a while later after that IIRC.