According (in part, to an article in the Guardian UK) Sergey Brin donated $25m to a Super Pac dedicated to blocking the California billionaire tax on top of $20m he had already given.
What a long way we have all come from those innocent days when Google first arrived on our screens. I demurred at first, happy with Alta Vista, only to be convinced by a particularly smart student who gave a fantastic presentation on exactly how Google ranking worked. That was in around 2000. But the algorithm that can plumb the depths of the human soul has yet to be invented. Here we all lie in darkness, flicking from page to page, while the tech bros grow fat on our stupor. Don't be ethical.
What a long way we have all come from those innocent days when Google first arrived on our screens. I demurred at first, happy with Alta Vista, only to be convinced by a particularly smart student who gave a fantastic presentation on exactly how Google ranking worked. That was in around 2000. But the algorithm that can plumb the depths of the human soul has yet to be invented. Here we all lie in darkness, flicking from page to page, while the tech bros grow fat on our stupor. Don't be ethical.
That's what those of us who were there in those early days witnessed, Alex. Apparently, monetization is the mountain no one can resist climbing...