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Re:The Wrong Right Way by gowld on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:27PM (#20187491)
Google and Facebook both had technology that was obviously monetizable from the start. They just needed time to build the product and build the monetization features.
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Re:The Wrong Right Way by ollerac on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:49PM (#20187588)
This is a rosy way to look at things after-the-fact, but, as far as I understand, the way Google monetized their search (by showing only relevant ads) was still a fairly new business practice at the time. And Adsense wasn't well tested either. Both were bets that ended up transforming the entire online Ad industry...
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Re:The Wrong Right Way by sixQuarks on Saturday June 15, 2019 @12:23AM (#20188387)
It was Overture that started doing pay per click ads on their search engine. Google copied that business model and actually got sued for it.
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