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Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up
prostoalex writes "Fortune Magazine runs a pretty long story on Google, but instead of the usual exultation over PageRank algorithm and Larry-and-Sergey biographies, we get a different message - is Google growing up, and is trouble brewing at Google? Here's Fortune's description of the pre-IPO days: 'Google has grown arrogant, making some of its executives as frustrating to deal with in negotiations as AOL's cowboy salesmen during the bubble. It has grown so fast that employees and business partners are often confused about who does what. A rise of stock- and option-stoked greed is creating rifts within the company. Employees carp that Google is morphing in strange and nerve-racking ways.'"
"I'm googling for it"? Only in America can you 'verb' a noun!
***You learn something Every day. And then you die.***
Yes, it is offensive, but it's hardly surprising. Corporate suits are the grown-up version of jock bullies in high school. In fact, a lot of them are the exact same people -- business degrees are the favored choice of people who want to get "an education" but don't have the brains to study something that takes an effort to learn.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.