When it was a research project at Stanford in 1996 it was genuinely about making the World information accessible.
The day in 2000 when they decided to sell advertisement is exactly when this process started, not just now in 2026. Since that day they transformed from a knowledge management project to an advertising company that used knowledge management, among other tools, to influence people effectively.
It's the same for Meta except they had Google business model as an example.
Those are advertising company that use tech, not real tech companies like e.g. ASML or IBM.
