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Apture had great distribution thanks to a very simple pitch to publishers:

"When somebody is reading an article and wants more info on a word / topic you lose them to Google - with Apture keep them on your site!"

As a result they received huge support from major destination sites like NYT, Time Magazine, etc.

Funny that Google wound up buying them and negating the major value they delivered to publishers.

I wonder if they do a rev-share on the advertising it generates when it becomes a Chrome feature, probably not.



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