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APRIL 15, 2010

It was the first company to do “paid search&# back when Larry & Sergey were saying they would never do it. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Sure, you might search on Twitter.com but how many of you search in Tweetie or UberTwitter often?

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here.

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MARCH 11, 2011

So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. We talked about patents. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

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