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> If Google didn't raise big money, they wouldn't have went on to do as many early acquisitions. Without those acquisitions, they don't stumble onto adwords/ads
by cppsnob 15y ago
> If Google didn't raise big money, they wouldn't have went on to do as many early acquisitions. Without those acquisitions, they don't stumble onto adwords/adsense
Adwords was out for around 6 months before the company's very first acquisition, DejaNews.
http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/history.html http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/history.html
Google quickly became insanely profitable after launching adwords. They only ever took $25MM in private funding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google#Financing_and_initial_public_offering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google#Financing_and...
I'm curious as to how you arrived at the assertions you made.
- viscanti 15y agoFair enough, that's a valid question. I arrived at my assertion by looking at the financials. http://investor.google.com/financial/2005/tables.html http://investor.google.com/financial/2005/tables.html Google make the vast majority of their money through ads (no surprise). Adwords didn't take off until they acquired Applied Semantics (for semantic processing) and Sprinks (contextual aware ads). It may have existed pre-acquisitions, but it didn't look anything like the current version, and wasn't anywhere near as profitable.