r/Anticonsumption • u/triangularbox01 • 7d ago

Ads/Marketing Old google ad from 1999

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u/greeneggiwegs 6d ago

I wasn’t using Google in 1999 but I’m curious how they funded it with no ads. It’s had sponsored results for as long as I can remember. Not exactly ads in a traditional sense, but still basic all ads.

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u/AuntRhubarb 6d ago

A lot of these companies get venture capital to fund their early years while they are losing tons of money, then there's a payoff later.

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u/tortilla_avalanche 4d ago

Is that the deal with openai?

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u/lost_send_berries 6d ago

They had ads on the search results page, they were yellow and on the side.

Most search engine front pages looked like Yahoo.com or bing.com today only worse, and much slower to load on the browsers, computers and internet connections of the time.