Is Google Recession-proof?

They survived the last burst, they should be fine in this one as long as they focus on innovation and better products.<p>Usually people say they are immune also because of overseas operations, but it seems that this recession may be a global economic downturn.<p>Hopefully Google has some things going on in emerging markets.

Um... I think the fact that they are comparing Google to direct mail.<p>I think a look at how Goto/Overture did during the last downturn (was it around) would be more telling.

Google's money is in advertising. Advertising is not recession proof. Thus Google is not recession-proof. Seems simple to me.

I wonder how much they were making off of sub-prime alone.