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> Google spent heavily to index websites without a clear path to profitability

Uh, they were advertising in 1999 already?



Please read the academic paper by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, available at this link: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2019/10/28/the-academic-p...

You might find their perspective on advertising surprising.

Returning to my earlier point, please expand your argument about why OpenAI may fail. Let’s aim to elevate the discussion.


I would say that this paper rather supports the point: the people who made Google knew from the get go that ads were one way to make money off it (even if they didn't like the notion).

OpenAI, in contrast, still doesn't have any notion as to how to make it all profitable.




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