I don't think so, looking at the org chart for Ads and Commerce. If you're trying to say someone working on Bigtable, Spanner, or other infrastructure is "dire

I don't think so, looking at the org chart for Ads and Commerce. If you're trying to say someone working on Bigtable, Spanner, or other infrastructure is "direct related to advertising", I disagree. That infrastructure benefits all Google products, not just ads. If I add up FTEs for Cloud, Search, Maps, Android, Chrome, Apps, Photos, etc is a several times multiple of those reporting to Ads related VPs.