Comment by thfuran

Comment by thfuran a year ago

3 replies

>Google basically destroyed itself when it decided to become an ad network rather than a dumb pipe you pay to access.

It didn't destroy itself, it became one of the largest and most profitable companies ever.

darby_nine a year ago

Right! Imagine how big they'd be if they hadn't given up on microtransactions in the 90s. I'd guess not trying to be broken up by the DOJ.

  • thfuran a year ago

    Probably they'd have closed shop long ago, because someone else would've done ad-funded search, and it's nearly impossible to compete with free.

    • darby_nine a year ago

      We'll never know because nobody tried. The internet is too broken now to bother searching. For a group of people that claim to love empirical analysis people on this site sure do love writing off anything but the current state of affairs.