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With things like these, I like to think how much money went into the development of the random PR assets like the weird progression diagram. Apparently, that money is better spent of these than say, someone on the Python Language Committee, or your entire Python team.

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I don't think the random PR assets cost as much as you think they do. I know people that could knock that out in a day or so.

Knowing the industry there's a bunch of people out there on the payroll continuously knocking out these assets all day long every day.

Google routinely uses agencies for this kind of work (I have been on both sides). A marketing website like this would be a ~$100,000 spend (depends how many pages and how many creative assets).

That sounds a bit high, but I'll trust your expertise.

Regardless, 1/50 the value of the prize doesn't seem egregious to me.

Ultimately Google will use this tech to push more ads. That's what they reduced themselves to. Just an ad business.

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