Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

When confronted by a Playboy interviewer about the privacy implications of the Gmail model, Larry and Sergey pitched it as a win-win. “Our ads aren’t distracting; they’re helpful,” Brin said.24 Page conceded that seeing ads related to the content of your mail was “a little spooky at first,” but all that free space was too good to turn down and users did get used to it. An IPO later that year gave Google a market cap of more than $20 billion.