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Jan 31, 2026 · Interview Experience
How a NASA Lisp Expert Built Google AdWords While Flying to Work
This article recounts Ron Garrett’s unlikely journey from NASA’s JPL to Google, his weekly plane commute, the chaotic development of the first AdWords system using Java and JSP, the billing bugs he faced, and how his work became the foundation of Google’s multibillion‑dollar advertising empire.
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