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It's important to note that most engineers at Google don't actually work on Ads or anything to do with monetization directly. Most will be working on things lik
by codeka 11y ago
It's important to note that most engineers at Google don't actually work on Ads or anything to do with monetization directly. Most will be working on things like Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Docs/Drive, YouTube, Chrome, etc etc.
I'm pretty sure Google doesn't really have a plan to monetize any of those things (other than ads), but I think it's also pretty cool that a small minority of the company makes enough money to let the rest do pretty much whatever.
- arthurcolle 11y agoI probably use Search the most out of all the other products in terms of volume usage per query (i.e. 1 video watch vs 1 search query) and I have noticed the search results getting less relevant to what I want over time. I'm always impressed by the speed at which they crawl but getting a strikethrough when I search something complicated is aggravating. Eventually someone will develop a superior search engine if they don't return to focusing on quality and relevance of results rather than just prioritizing paid content.