Google: Search Quality & AdSense Teams Don't Talk, Ever

Mar 29, 2017 - 7:51 am 16 by

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Google has said time and time again that the search team, the organic side, does not talk to the paid side, the AdWords teams. There is a pretty big divide, intentionally, between paid and organic. This is also true with the AdSense team. Google search, organic search, doesn't talk to the AdSense team.

Gary Illyes from Google said this on Twitter yesterday. In response to if they talk, Gary wrote "we absolutely don't talk to them." Adding that they "pretty much ever" never talk to the AdSense team.

Here is the tweet:

I believe it, but I bet many of you do not.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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