— Malcolm HarrisThe new version of AdSense was so successful that the firm created a version that allowed third-party sites to post Google-run ads, too. Despite the host of exotic commercial fields Google has entered since, as well as the company’s reorganization under the Alphabet holding entity, Google advertising still, almost 20 years later, provides more than 80 percent of the conglomerate’s revenue.
Replicated under Fair Use from Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris.