[istillwritecode]

Google went about two years until they showed their first ad. They initially thought they would be providing search to companies for their intranet.

[mkl]

> They initially thought they would be providing search to companies for their intranet.

Really? Page and Brin were focused on public web pages and links from before Google existed, through their PhD research [1], so switching to intranet seems strange.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google

[etaioinshrdlu]

Are there any interesting details about the intranet search products?

[nrp]

Google Search Appliances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance

[mkl]

Launched in 2002, when their revenue was over 400 million, and well after they had ads.

[mdekkers]

The yellow google search appliance was cool at the time.