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Re:Judge Rules US v. Google Trial Documents Can Be Posted On... by Brybry on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @05:10PM (#37681355)
It's still bizarre to me that Google was ever allowed to purchase DoubleClick (even though DoubleClick was far more evil).
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Re:Judge Rules US v. Google Trial Documents Can Be Posted On... by to11mtm on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:10PM (#37682096)
They managed to do it at the right time; back then most people still thought they actually followed "Don't be Evil". Also, unless I am misremembering, the acquisition was completed before the first commercial Android phone was even announced, they were a much smaller company.
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Re:Judge Rules US v. Google Trial Documents Can Be Posted On... by btilly on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @09:30PM (#37684046)
The joke within Google at the time was, "We had to spend $3 billion to convince Sergey that image ads weren't evil."
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