That wasn't the only way AOL goofed. Elsewhere in the Google, I have it on reasonable authority, they looked at the released data and reverse-engineered reasonable guesses about costs, enabling Google to better compete on ad pricing against the House that Case built. Data is/are never one thing.
Oh, you can count on that. AOL was already fast on the decline in 2006, not that you can't learn from them, but sheeze they really lost the thread as the open web blossomed.
That wasn't the only way AOL goofed. Elsewhere in the Google, I have it on reasonable authority, they looked at the released data and reverse-engineered reasonable guesses about costs, enabling Google to better compete on ad pricing against the House that Case built. Data is/are never one thing.
Oh, you can count on that. AOL was already fast on the decline in 2006, not that you can't learn from them, but sheeze they really lost the thread as the open web blossomed.