> The ads thing sort of happened by accident. idk, i've definitely heard from people with low employee ids that larry & sergy had the idea of ads from before d

> The ads thing sort of happened by accident. idk, i've definitely heard from people with low employee ids that larry & sergy had the idea of ads from before day 1. Perhaps they didn't realize how much money it would be but they didn't develop pagerank and spend years _wondering_ how it could be monetized. I think somebody submitted a blog year ago to HN that goes into this. Maybe somebody from doubleclick side that turned down an offer from Larry?