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No, it was funded by Google. Advertisers paid money for Google for totally unrelated services. Google invested that money in a number of ways. One of them was
by jsnell 1y ago
No, it was funded by Google.
Advertisers paid money for Google for totally unrelated services. Google invested that money in a number of ways. One of them was to build this very profitable non-advertising business. The advertisers didn't fund that business any more than the advertisers funded US treasuries, or the dozens of startups that Google has invested in as a VC.