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Google Adsense God Says Goodbye
By Daya Baran at November 18, 2007 7 Comments
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.
Labels: Checkout, Google Apps, Online Advertising
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Google luck to Gokul! I met him some time ago at an Internet Conference where he very helpfully answered my questions about adsense and even gave me some travel tips for India. I think he’ll be missed at Google.
No way! Gokul gave me travel tips to India too.
He gave me Adsense tips but they didn’t work!
He gave us great tips. We have been using adsense successfully to boost traffic to our family site.
Yang Family
Traffic Dept
Yahoo!
I Want To Speak At Your Conference.
All the best - thanks for giving us a vision - Bill Gates
Ha - that’s a coincidence Daya. I never got to go even though our travel site had an office there for over a year - in state of Kerala. Next year is China but I’m hoping to get to India eventually.