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wickedchicken on Aug 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: A lot of tech companies in NYC are hiring, here's ...

> if you think of the fact that a company like Google depends on ad revenue

Google's ad platform was the result of combining Applied Semantics' ad matching algorithm with DoubleClick's penetration/established partner network. In other words, the engineers in the Bay needed a way to pay for their sweet search engine development and just bought ad companies in LA and NYC respectively :)

michaelpinto on Aug 1, 2011 [–]

DoubleClick had more than a sales staff -- they did have technology. Granted it may not have been as cool, but give NYC some time!

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