Google Adsense God Says Goodbye

Gokul Rajaram, a key Googler involved with the launch of Google Adsense has left the building.

AdSense has revolutionized web publishing by turning blogs and content sites into profitable businesses. Adsense allows web site publishers to run relevant ads on their web sites. It is one of Google's most profitable ventures to date.

Gokul has left to start his own company. “I have some ideas on the consumer Internet side, I have some experience and financial security, so the time felt right” he said.

“When we started AdSense, it was just me and four engineers. The night before we launched, Sergey spent five hours with me testing the system and pointing out bugs” said Gokul. Recently, another Googler Benjamin Ling emailed me to say that he was leaving for Facebook. Not too long ago Bret Taylor who was one of the key people behind Google Maps left to start his own company.