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Re:Google's "designer drain" by menloparkbum on Saturday March 21, 2009 @01:43PM (#526353)
turning the online advertisement market into the new derivatives trading industry. It's basically Wall Street West.

That is a good way to put it. But, I doubt most people think of Google in that way, including engineers.

Re:Google's "designer drain" by chiffonade on Saturday March 21, 2009 @01:47PM (#526355)
> But, I doubt most people think of Google in that way, including engineers

You can bet the people calling the shots at Google are thinking of it that way.