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Google Co-Founder: I Did Not Try to Buy Twitter

Source: Mashable!

Oct 22, 2009

Summary

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin has just made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. He discussed Twitter, advertising, Bing, and answered audience questions.

Here are some of the highlights:

On Tim Armstrong: Tim Armstrong used to be one of Google’s top executives, but recently became the CEO of AOL. They saw each other backstage, and said that AOL was lucky to have someone of his caliber at the helm.

On Twitter: He was very happy for Evan Williams, Twitter Co-founder and CEO, who sold his first company, Blogger, to Google years ago. He was not personally involved in the Twitter search deal.

Then he was asked by John Battelle whether or not he (Google) tried to acquire Twitter

On online advertising: “The Internet as an advertising platform is very efficient,” he said. He thinks Internet rates are going to go up, “a rising tide.” He discussed the decision to create AdWords, part of their core advertising system. A good decision, if we say so ourselves.

On entering new areas: Google enters areas where they find problems. Gmail, for exam

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