Google sales reps were concerned that this shortened the time customers would view ads, but the company went ahead and believed that it was worth the risk.

谷歌的销售人员担心此举会缩短客户浏览广告的时间，但公司仍继续并相信此举值得冒险。

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Sandberg helped turn online ads into a cash cow for Google and handled sales operations while the company's employees and revenue grew by leaps and bounds.

Sandberg帮助Google把在线广告变成了摇钱树，在她主持销售运营期间，公司的员工和收入的增长都突飞猛进。

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The Google vice president of global sales and operations will become chief operating officer at the social network company later this month.

这位Google前任全球销售及运营副总裁，在本月晚些时候将成为facebook的首席运营官(COO)。

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Online advertising sales in China are estimated to bring Google only a few hundred million dollars a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.15

Google earns most of its money from sales of advertising on its search engine.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

Omid Kurdestani, Google sales boss, told BBC News Online that many of its customers, such as sellers of concert tickets, need to be able to tune their requests quickly.

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Kurt Abrahamson, CEO of the share-button company ShareThis and a former Google sales director, says he thinks neither Google search nor its core search ads are threatened for now.

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It was then that Page and Brin made their first attempt at monetizing Google through ad sales.

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