Yeah, I think the amount of Google employees is completely rational if you consider it for what it is. The key takeaway from that article: >Businesses that ac

Yeah, I think the amount of Google employees is completely rational if you consider it for what it is. The key takeaway from that article: >Businesses that actually care about turning a profit will spend a lot of time (hence, a lot of engineers) working on optimizing systems, even if an MVP for the system could have been built in a weekend. Google's goal is to make as much profit as possible. Wikipedia's isn't. If Google had stayed a non-profit search engine the whole time (as proposed in the original paper for Google), then its costs would probably be not too different from Wikipedia's.