Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 15, 2010
Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. 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. Overture sold for $1.6
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. We talked about patents. Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers.
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