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The Forgotten Startup That Inspired Google’s Brilliant Business Model
The idea that made Google the world’s greatest search engine was all Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But the idea that set it on the path to becoming the world’s greatest company wasn’t theirs originally. It was borrowed, with some key modifications, from their biggest early rival.
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Holy shit talk about blast to the past... I remember when they used to display how much the click through was worth directly under the search results.
Whoa, is this the same Bill Gross as Ubermedia?
Correct. I checked out wikipedia and it's basically how he got uberrich.
Just had a look at the 2000 goto.com in the RL... such simple times back then.