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Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up

Posted by simoniker on from the blossoming-money-tree dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Good grief by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    wc results:
    word count: 115
    character count: 678
    please post more precise posts next time.

  2. Google translator doing well by mattjb0010 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, at least the Google translator is doing well, repeated use seems to have generated: Employees carp that Google is morphing in strange and nerve-racking ways.

  3. Re:Good grief by mattjb0010 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well I don't know about Google growing up, but trouble brewing is at Google.

  4. Re:Googling? by perly-king-69 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, but it _is_ a horribly insidious American thing. It seems that architects don't design any more, they 'architect.' Similary it appears that you don't search using google, you just 'google'. Language is at it's most useful when we each take the time to learn the difference and uses of nouns, verbs and adjectives at the very least. And don't get me started on the apostrophe.

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  5. Re:Eight words... by FrostedWheat · · Score: 2, Funny

    All good things must come to an end.

    Uh-oh .. does that mean SCO and Microsoft will last forever?!

  6. Re:Googling? by Sexy+Bern · · Score: 3, Funny
    Language is at it's most useful when we each take the time to learn

    ITS. ITS. ITS.

    You arse.

  7. Re:So what we need really is.. by LPetrazickis · · Score: 2, Funny

    3. Code that determines which passengers get flagged for pre-flight searches. Armed with this information criminals could fashion profiles that guarantee they will not be probed in-depth.

    Hah! My random number generator can't be circumvented.^-^

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