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Things I Didn't Know About Google (also: the worst VC decision ever)

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Post by HelloBeautiful »

dools wrote: post #2

"it was about how the jews control Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. The funny thing about this particular site is that it had Google Ads all over it." I actually thought about this the other day in the context of how important Facebook was during revolutionary activity in Arab nations and the action Facebook took to protect people's passwords and privacy during the civil unrest in Tunisia. My first thought was that…

You realized? Obviously you don't need to check your realizations with the facts. If you did check a conspiracy forum or subreddit, you would've 'realized' most ppl think these protests are orginized by the zionists/CIA.

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Post by barrkel »

nostrademons wrote: post #10
staunch wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any idea if PageRank was named after Larry rather than Web Pages?

Rumor has it that's true, unless Google itself is lying: http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html

I'm fairly sure the name is a deliberate pun.

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Post by zeroplus1 »

paul wrote: post #4

False history. The Applied Semantics software was not needed to "generate 99% of its revenues at IPO time". They owned the trademark "AdSense", but the actual software used by Google was written by Google. Also, the product known as AdSense (at that time) was just for content targetted ads, not the search ads which produce most of the profits, so his bit of trivia is actually double wrong.

This is from an article about the Google press release when they bought A.S.: " Google said that Applied Semantics' products and engineering team will strengthen Google's search and advertising programs, including its "fast-growing content-targeted advertising offering"" . At the time, Applied Semantics had a license deal with Overture, which was also doing content-targeted advertising and AS software was used to enable it." My guess is whatever Google had in place was significantly enhanced by the A.S. software.

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Post by metageek »

diego wrote: post #6

That's like saying that not buying the winning lottery ticket was a bad decision. You did the best with the information you had at the time. Drinking and driving is a bad decision. Putting all your eggs in one basket is a bad decision. Passing on a given investment opportunity is just everyday business for a VC.

But making investment decisions while playing Defender is harder to justify.

Re: Things I Didn't Know About Google (also: the worst VC decision ever)

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Post by jaltucher »

metageek wrote: post #15
diego wrote: post #6

That's like saying that not buying the winning lottery ticket was a bad decision. You did the best with the information you had at the time. Drinking and driving is a bad decision. Putting all your eggs in one basket is a bad decision. Passing on a given investment opportunity is just everyday business for a VC.

But making investment decisions while playing Defender is harder to justify.

Although I will add that Defender was the all-time best game. Angry Birds vs Defender? I'll take Defender any day.

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Post by nir »

dools wrote: post #2

"it was about how the jews control Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. The funny thing about this particular site is that it had Google Ads all over it." I actually thought about this the other day in the context of how important Facebook was during revolutionary activity in Arab nations and the action Facebook took to protect people's passwords and privacy during the civil unrest in Tunisia. My first thought was that…

Conspiracies are simply a replacement for religion. Just as religious people see God's will in any event, conspiracy theorists on Reddit see CIA/Mossad/etc behind everything. By definition, you can't disprove them.

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Post by staunch »

barrkel wrote: post #12
nostrademons wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rumor has it that's true, unless Google itself is lying: http://www.google.com/press/funfacts.html

I'm fairly sure the name is a deliberate pun.

I guess Larry Page was inclined to create something with web pages the way people like Dennis are inclined to become dentists :-)

Re: Things I Didn't Know About Google (also: the worst VC decision ever)

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Post by staunch »

staunch wrote: post #18
barrkel wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm fairly sure the name is a deliberate pun.

I guess Larry Page was inclined to create something with web pages the way people like Dennis are inclined to become dentists :-)

s/like Dennis/named Dennis/

Re: Things I Didn't Know About Google (also: the worst VC decision ever)

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Post by paul »

zeroplus1 wrote: post #13
paul wrote: post #4

False history. The Applied Semantics software was not needed to "generate 99% of its revenues at IPO time". They owned the trademark "AdSense", but the actual software used by Google was written by Google. Also, the product known as AdSense (at that time) was just for content targetted ads, not the search ads which produce most of the profits, so his bit of trivia is actually double wrong.

This is from an article about the Google press release when they bought A.S.: " Google said that Applied Semantics' products and engineering team will strengthen Google's search and advertising programs, including its "fast-growing content-targeted advertising offering"" . At the time, Applied Semantics had a license deal with Overture, which was also doing content-targeted advertising and AS software was used to ena…

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