Thus saith the founders of Google

A class that I'm taking this semester has required that I read a number of papers. I figured that would share a couple of short quotations from a paper written by the founders of Google while they were still students at Stanford:

Quote 1:

We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

Quote 2:

We believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm.

Comments

Do you think they still believe that?

Yes Google has advertising. But it's less intrusive than other search engines. Take for example their very simple homepage.