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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
30 Jun 2025 Acquired Google Part I: Origins of Search
“Hell, 2002, I was probably just transitioning from using AOL as my way to access the Internet as a senior in high school. I think we had maybe just gotten broadband that year, maybe the year before.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 30 Jun 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Google Part I: Origins of Search
Transcript context
…So they’re feeling really good about this, so they decide to go to AOL, the big source of traffic. AOL has 34 million users at this point. It’s funny imagining this recently, AOL was still a big and important company, but if they could figure out how to be the search results provider and more importantly, the ad provider for AOL that is a potentially company-making event. Hell, 2002, I was probably just transitioning from using AOL as my way to access the Internet as a senior in high school. I think we had maybe just gotten broadband that year, maybe the year before. Funny how sometimes things feel like a lifetime ago, and sometimes they feel like just yesterday.…
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