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Google Adwords changed all of that. That, as well as free weblog hosting, fuelled the blogging bubble. You wrote a blog using a weblog system that came with decent SEO baked in (semantic structure and cross-linking, that’s all you needed back then). Most of your traffic came from Google’s search results. All of your revenue came from Google’s Adwor... See more
Baldur Bjarnason • The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was
Hacker culture, too, is as much an ethos as a programme. It emerged at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1950s and 1960s and promoted work done for curiosity rather than reward, as well as a belief in sharing, openness, decentralisation and bettering the world. It combined the discipline of engineering with the creative spirit of the
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Young romantics working at the "intersection of art and technology" launched endless criticisms of big tech's overreach and in the process created the foundations for an entire scene of left-field internet aesthetics.
Bryan Lehrer • What Happened to the New Internet?
working for Google in five years. Marissa Mayer took this news calmly, claiming that such ambition was why they had been hired in the first place. “This is the gene that Larry and Sergey look for,” she told me. “Even if they leave, it’s still good for us. They’re going to take the Google DNA with them.”