300m - 8:32 pm on Dec 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

I agree 100% with poster boy. Search Marketing positions are not getting touched where i work. In fact, it is in high demand because even though our costs have gone up this year, its still by far the cheapest and best ROI we have in our marketing department.

Actually I would say that the comapny i am emplyed at made more online revenue in 2008 than 2007. Most of which came from google.

But at the same time, the gap between profit and cost is getting narrowed by the economy and what I beleive to be Google pushing all of us closer to our max bids.

Seriously, who regulates when who and how Google operates their ads? The answer is simple, its Google, so they have all of the control and we are essentially at their mercy.