— Katie DrummondAnd so that's happening during the 2000s into the early 2010s. Machine learning was around, machine learning was one of a number of statistical techniques that usually lived between ads and research to help optimize advertising auctions and ad placement, whatever. But it wasn't the Godhead, right?
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