It was running on venture capital, betting that giving away search for free would drive Yahoo, WebCrawler, Alta Vista, and all the others out of business, leaving Google free to monopolize and enshittify.
Luckily, it’s illegal to sell products below what they cost in the United States, so that didn’t happen.
Edit: Shit. I keep forgetting when I’m posting in this timeline. We got “Cats” the CGI musical in this one, too, right?! Did we at least get the butthole version here?
It was running on venture capital, betting that giving away search for free would drive Yahoo, WebCrawler, Alta Vista, and all the others out of business, leaving Google free to monopolize and enshittify.
Luckily, it’s illegal to sell products below what they cost in the United States,
so that didn’t happen.Edit: Shit. I keep forgetting when I’m posting in this timeline. We got “Cats” the CGI musical in this one, too, right?! Did we at least get the butthole version here?