[techdragon]

The least they could do was nothing… this is just a little better than that. This isn’t 2 million of useful cash money, it’s -2 million of revenue. It sort of feels “cheap” to me.

And I’m wondering how senior the management chain has to be to approve something this large? Are we talking C suite? Or like Vice President of AdWords European business marketing division ?

[klyrs]

More cynically, it's a $2M thumb on the scale of an auction, and if somebody wants to outbid the relevant keywords, that's pure profit.

[burntoutfire]

Any decision with political ramifications surely needs to go through the highest echelons.

[morelisp]

"Good" news, this is unlikely to have any political ramifications.