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_without any business commitments_ - not to sound trite, but when is the last time Google stood by its commitments?

• ithkuil 4y ago
  Google still sells ads, doesn't it?
  • namkt 4y ago
    Didn't they originally claim to never show ads in search given that it is in direct opposition to search results quality? Back in the days when Pagerank was hot.
    • AlotOfReading 4y ago
      That was in the original pagerank publications. Google had lots of other early attempts to make money that avoided advertising (like the search appliance [0]), but the firehose of money from ads dwarfed anything else they could ever find and that early Google didn't last long. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance
    • ithkuil 4y ago
      Was that a "business commitment" or a "user commitment"?