"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%-

"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."