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The origin of Google's 'Sponsored Links'

From the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford, Marissa Mayer of Google shares an old company story Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience at Google, sat on a panel at the AlwaysOn Summit over at Stanford University yesterday. The theme of the panel was centered on the growing pains of innovation - how does a company grow while keeping its innovative edge? She cited a real life case based on her experience at Google. Mayer explained that in the early days of Google, when it was still ad-free, users would email the company begging them to never put advertisements on the site - at the time, users were afraid of the annoying pop-ups we've all become too familiar with. But it was without a doubt that Google needed to make some money - ... [ Read more ]

Vator TV | July 30, 2009Watch more videos from Vator TV

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