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He said (paraphrasing) they could make money today, but they are opting for building a longterm-business (read: big thing like Intel, not somewhat big thing lik
by access_denied 18y ago
He said (paraphrasing) they could make money today, but they are opting for building a longterm-business (read: big thing like Intel, not somewhat big thing like Blogger).
If you take his qualifier into account, yeah, maybe he could be right.
- prakash 18y agowhy does it have to be mutually exclusive? why can't they do both?
- lacker 18y agoThey could easily be profitable immediately if they put big ads on the homepage. But that would hurt the experience. As long as they don't need the money, they want to keep the user experience as good as possible. The hope is that they will develop a less intrusive, more targeted form of advertising that is still effective.