July 6, 2007
Did Wojcicki Lie About Creating AdSense?
Yesterday we wrote Profile Of Susan Wojcicki: Mother Of AdSense covering a USA Today article about how Susan Wojcicki created the AdSense product for Google.
Valleywag soon came out with a bold blog post countering USA Today's article calling Susan Wojcicki a big liar. Valleywag explains:
AdSense was not a prototype that Wojcicki developed. Instead, AdSense was the name of a product launched by Applied Semantics, a Santa Monica, Calif. startup, in October 2002. Google launched an AdSense copycat in March 2003, and then acquired Applied Semantics, and with it the AdSense name, one month later.
