[cppsnob]

> If Google didn't raise big money, they wouldn't have went on to do as many early acquisitions. Without those acquisitions, they don't stumble onto adwords/adsense

Adwords was out for around 6 months before the company's very first acquisition, DejaNews.

http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/history.html

Google quickly became insanely profitable after launching adwords. They only ever took $25MM in private funding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google#Financing_and...

I'm curious as to how you arrived at the assertions you made.

[viscanti]

Fair enough, that's a valid question. I arrived at my assertion by looking at the financials. http://investor.google.com/financial/2005/tables.html

Google make the vast majority of their money through ads (no surprise). Adwords didn't take off until they acquired Applied Semantics (for semantic processing) and Sprinks (contextual aware ads). It may have existed pre-acquisitions, but it didn't look anything like the current version, and wasn't anywhere near as profitable.