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Google had ads (AdWords) since 2000, only 2 years after it started existing.

• fuzzfactor 3y ago
  Those were the best years.
• nostrademons 3y ago
  It was very different from the punch-the-monkey style ads that had taken over the Internet, though. Google ads were exclusively text based and unobtrusive. They relied on showing you the right ad for what you happened to be searching for at the moment, rather than grabbing your attention and forcing you to think about stuff you didn't really care about.