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When you find a way to hire 10,000 top engineers and scientists and put them to work on exciting web services with a decent salary (deployed on the most scaleab

When you find a way to hire 10,000 top engineers and scientists and put them to work on exciting web services with a decent salary (deployed on the most scaleable and power efficient datacenters out there), much of which, the average person loves to use, but won't pay for, and without using tax dollars or scraping by on donations, let me know, I've love to do a start up with you. Did you pay for Netscape when they used to charge money? I assure you, revenue doesn't increase magically quarter by quarter, in case you haven't noticed, when Google started out, most of the population still wasn't online yet, and most advertising dollars were spent in print and video media. Most of the meteoric rise can be traced simply to growth in the online audience and a switch-over from print to digital, not somehow arm twisting someone to click on an ad, if anything, people are induced to click on ads by making them less annoying and more relevant, otherwise, they 'mentally adblock' them. You can believe what you want about motives, I only know what I experience everyday as far as others I know -- we like working on interesting or hard problems, just like any collection of geeky engineers and scientists. That I get paid to do what I'm passionate about, I personally feel grateful and lucky.

taligent 14y ago
So what you are saying is that Google is a talented and large advertising company.
OGinparadise 14y ago
"Most of the meteoric rise can be traced simply to growth in the online audience and a switch-over from print to digital" Until 2007 maybe, but now you're 85%-100% ads on all commercial topics and most users probably don't realize it yet. Face it, that's the truth. Enjoy your paycheck and stock grants but there's nothing to feel proud about your company. Every time business owners growl about less traffic and penalties from "unbiased Google", magically Google's revenue grow by another 30%. we like working on interesting or hard problems, just like any collection of geeky engineers and scientists. That I get paid to do what I'm passionate about Hard problems...like intercepting user intent and not sending them to sites but to Adwords links? That's what your real boss, Nikesh Arora said during his conference call. Or making the background as close to white and hide the ad disclaimers as possible? You sound Carmela Soprano "I'm just a housewife, cooking for my husband, I don't know where the money to support me comes from."
- cromwellian 14y ago
  Oh snap!
- nitrogen 14y ago
  Or making the background as close to white and hide the ad disclaimers as possible? The background actually becomes white at even slight vertical angles on cheap laptop LCDs; it seems to have been selected just for that purpose.
anon1385 14y ago
>if anything, people are induced to click on ads by making them less annoying and more relevant, otherwise, they 'mentally adblock' them. or by disguising ads as a legitimate part of the page so that users click them by mistake, often leading people to download malware. Just about every software download page on the internet that has ads is full of Google served ads that lead to malware. This is what Google has turned the web into for people that don't use adblock: http://i.imgur.com/0vPdDYU.png http://i.imgur.com/0vPdDYU.png People have complained about this for years. Maybe doing some OCR on the ads you serve to filter out big fake 'Download' buttons isn't enough of an "interesting or hard problem" for you super-geniuses to waste your time on.

taligent 14y ago

So what you are saying is that Google is a talented and large advertising company.

OGinparadise 14y ago

"Most of the meteoric rise can be traced simply to growth in the online audience and a switch-over from print to digital" Until 2007 maybe, but now you're 85%-100% ads on all commercial topics and most users probably don't realize it yet. Face it, that's the truth. Enjoy your paycheck and stock grants but there's nothing to feel proud about your company. Every time business owners growl about less traffic and penalties from "unbiased Google", magically Google's revenue grow by another 30%. we like working on interesting or hard problems, just like any collection of geeky engineers and scientists. That I get paid to do what I'm passionate about Hard problems...like intercepting user intent and not sending them to sites but to Adwords links? That's what your real boss, Nikesh Arora said during his conference call. Or making the background as close to white and hide the ad disclaimers as possible? You sound Carmela Soprano "I'm just a housewife, cooking for my husband, I don't know where the money to support me comes from."

cromwellian 14y ago
Oh snap!
nitrogen 14y ago
Or making the background as close to white and hide the ad disclaimers as possible? The background actually becomes white at even slight vertical angles on cheap laptop LCDs; it seems to have been selected just for that purpose.

anon1385 14y ago

>if anything, people are induced to click on ads by making them less annoying and more relevant, otherwise, they 'mentally adblock' them. or by disguising ads as a legitimate part of the page so that users click them by mistake, often leading people to download malware. Just about every software download page on the internet that has ads is full of Google served ads that lead to malware. This is what Google has turned the web into for people that don't use adblock: http://i.imgur.com/0vPdDYU.png http://i.imgur.com/0vPdDYU.png People have complained about this for years. Maybe doing some OCR on the ads you serve to filter out big fake 'Download' buttons isn't enough of an "interesting or hard problem" for you super-geniuses to waste your time on.