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Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.

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Terry Gross
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 14
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It bothers me when people, say, you know, write for, you know, a web publication and get paid little or nothing or, you know, expecting to, like, read the best newspapers in the world and not pay a cent for it. Those newspapers need money in order to operate.
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[Hillary Clinton] really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.
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