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Google went about two years until they showed their first ad. They initially thought they would be providing search to companies for their intranet.
by istillwritecode 3y ago
Google went about two years until they showed their first ad. They initially thought they would be providing search to companies for their intranet.
- etaioinshrdlu 3y agoAre there any interesting details about the intranet search products?
- nrp 3y agoGoogle Search Appliances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance
- mkl 3y agoLaunched in 2002, when their revenue was over 400 million, and well after they had ads.
- mdekkers 3y agoThe yellow google search appliance was cool at the time.
- mkl 3y ago> They initially thought they would be providing search to companies for their intranet. Really? Page and Brin were focused on public web pages and links from before Google existed, through their PhD research [1], so switching to intranet seems strange. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
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