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> While the information isn’t public, we can safely assume that less than 5%, or 2,954 engineers, work directly or indirectly on Google Ads (Google Search, Yout
by H8crilA 5y ago
> While the information isn’t public, we can safely assume that less than 5%, or 2,954 engineers, work directly or indirectly on Google Ads (Google Search, Youtube, etc.).
Where does this assumption come from? I don't think this is even remotely close to the truth.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y agoYeah I mean there are probably a thousand people working explicitly and directly on web search alone, not to mention all the auxiliary work that goes into supporting websearch. This assumption is very incorrect.
- stingraycharles 5y agoYeah it’s a hilariously incorrect article. Even if it were 5% engineers, the article presents it as if all the non-engineers are excess weight that don’t do anything useful.
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- calbear81 5y agoI think we should explain this more clearly to the original author; it’s probably true that maybe 5% work on ads but that is literally the ads system like Adwords and Adsense. The only reason those are valuable is that Google has tons of traffic and that traffic is driven by the work of the other 95% working on sub-verticals, core search, Youtube, etc. If you take away the people working on those these services would stagnate and people will start going to another search engine and then you lose revenue.