Actually after search I went to ads as well to learn the maths part of it. Both are very interesting as long as you don't get to a team led by politics and PMs.
After politics/PMs creep in you have to stop looking at the data to improve the product because you get so many ,,little'' tasks to implement from the outside.
Ah, cool, yeah, sorry, actually I wrote the same thing in a sibling comment after you, that Google's product could easily be monetized without ads as well (just not as well). :)
After politics/PMs creep in you have to stop looking at the data to improve the product because you get so many ,,little'' tasks to implement from the outside.