Dominic and Google revenue

is it coincidence?

[lukasz]

Google executives have privately told the board that revenue will soar from less than $300 million in 2002 to $750 million or more this year, with gross profit margins of 30 percent

Maybe Dominic is an answer.
I suspect that Adword revenue in this confusion must have soared.
Is there correlation between using Adwords and pages disappearing from Google? Or maybe it is temporary confusion to drive more first time user into adwords?
What do you think?

[Powdork]

None of the above, I suspect now. Later tonight after a few beverages, when mysitefirmlystuckbelow100.com stays where it is, I'll probably jump back on the Google is doing it for Adwords bandwagon, but not at this point.;)

[figment88]

While I do not buy into any plots, I must say it is a bit alarming that Google now has conflicting interests in regards to quality of SERPS.

BTW without making any recent changes, my AdWords expenditure hit an all time high today - almost 20% more than a typical monday. Perhaps more people are not finding what they seek in the regular SERP.

[europeforvisitors]

Yes, it's all a conspiracy--and for that matter, who's to say that GoogleGuy wasn't the second gunman on the grassy knoll? :-)

[Clark]

When a suit takes over Sergey's job then I'll believe these conspiracies. The time to get cynical has not yet arrived. Some years to go I think.

[rfgdxm1]

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

-Hanlon's Razor

While I do strongly suspect Google is doing this to increase Adword sales, the theory that Google just screwed up the algo and blew it does tend to explain a lot. Consider Windows. Microsoft has no economic incentive to make Windows crash a lot. This hasn't stopped this from being so. ;)

[1milehgh80210]

IMO it's in googles self-interest to have good quality free SERPS.
Now ..GREAT.. quality free SERPS? I'm not so sure. Got to let the eye wander to the right side of the page (sometimes)you know!

[berli]

While I do strongly suspect Google is doing this to increase Adword sales, the theory that Google just screwed up the algo and blew it does tend to explain a lot. Consider Windows. Microsoft has no economic incentive to make Windows crash a lot. This hasn't stopped this from being so. ;)

On the other hand, Microsoft has no economic incentive to prevent Windows from crashing a lot. Face it: they're a marketing company, and they've figured out how to win either way (monopoly).

Google does not have a monopoly. There are other players out there who are ready and quite willing to take not only their users but their Adwords revenue too. If Google loses searcher market share, Adwords goes down the drain with it.

So I can't give much credence to conspiracy theories. (Actually, this seems completely consistent with a major code change -- hey, this stuff happens. I just hope the end result was worth the effort.)

fixed my spelling -- silly me

[edited by: berli at 4:09 am (utc) on May 20, 2003]

[chiyo]

absolutely correct berli with what you bolded. And welcome to active posting!

To the original poster i just want to remind us all that the data reported in the google's revenue article was published a LONG time before dominic hit the scene.

An index that provides great value for USERS is absolutely essential for adword sales. No good index - no page views - no adword views - no advertisers.

[David_M]

[forbes.com ] Forbes Article

one chief executive told them that if his site could search only 80% as well as everyone else's, that was okay by him. "That company is now out of business," Page says.

Like to think Google learned from the mistakes of others.