“On February 6th 2019, Gomes said that he believed that search was “getting too close to the money,” and ended his email by saying that he was “concerned that growth is all that Google was thinking about.””
In 2019 the ads team called a “code yellow” because search queries were behind forecast. Ben Gomes, head of search, warned you could raise queries “in user negative ways” like turning off spell correction. A year later Prabhakar Raghavan, the ads boss behind the code yellow, ran search and Gomes was moved to education. The emails come from the DOJ antitrust case, and they show the ads team got the search engine it wanted.