Microsoft Research seem very evaluatable (they routinely sell their work to product tems, and things like the algorithms driving the ad network from bing came o

Microsoft Research seem very evaluatable (they routinely sell their work to product tems, and things like the algorithms driving the ad network from bing came out of MSR) in terms of the bottom line, and Google's research is so integrated with the usual engineering it's hard to know which is which (and hence I doubt it fares any worse than the rest of google in terms of contributing directly to the bottom line).