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Re:Google is killing Gmail's Basic HTML View in early 2024 by paulddraper on Sunday September 24, 2023 @01:57PM (#37635490)
When was Google not an ads company?
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Re:Google is killing Gmail's Basic HTML View in early 2024 by spiffytech on Sunday September 24, 2023 @02:20PM (#37635711)
Google was founded in 1998, though it was preceded by the research project in 1996.

AdWords debuted in 2000, then AdSense in 2003.

My memory as a user is Google didn't "feel" like an ad-driven company until years later, in the wake of the DoubleClick acquisition in 2008.

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Re:Google is killing Gmail's Basic HTML View in early 2024 by paulddraper on Sunday September 24, 2023 @03:03PM (#37636148)
tl;dr Google has been driven by ads since essentially its founding.
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