A new email was leaked as part of the DOJ investigation, this was from Jerry Dischler, the Vice President of Google Ads. The email was to Prabhakar Raghavan, who leads up all of Google Search including Google Search and Google Ads but also to the leads of the Chrome team.

It seems to be asking primarily for the Chrome team to somehow “inject” “queries ASAP from Chrome.” The Google Ads team wants this to continue the “shaking the cushions” to find more revenue to hit revenue targets for the company. This was in addition to the raising ad prices in an auction bidding setting, for Google Ads to hit revenue targets.

The email goes on to also request “other ranking tweaks we can push out very quickly” from the Google team in order to improve ad revenue. It also does mention the mobile search redesign Google was about to release weeks later that “will be very revenue positive” according to the email.

It is a hard email to see and fully understand and it is shocking this email was sent in the first place.

Here is a copy of the email from @pdrmnvd on Twitter:

Here is the text of that email:

Again, it doesn’t seem like Search leads are on this email but it does imply search changes so I am not sure.

Don’t forget, Google has said numerous times that Google Search Quality does not talk to Google – ever.

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