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.'"

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One other sign of Google going down: Google Groups

[Mengoxon]

About a year ago, I found out that it was suddenly not possible to post anymore in "old" Google Groups discussion.

When you are ready to post, click on the "Post a Follow-up" link below the text of the message to which you wish to reply. Please note that follow-up links only appear on messages that are less than a month old.

I don't get it! At the time I found a solution to a problem that was posted, I just wanted to add that solution but could not! What's the point?

Re:Google changing search results for profit?

[Stephen]

We had a long discussion on this just yesterday. I don't see the point of repeating everything again today. But I don't think your conspiracy theories are plausible -- Google were trying to get rid of spam, and may have been over-zealous, but I don't think they were deliberately trying to worsen their search results; they know that will lead to a very quick death.

cause: newsnet behind Google Groups

[Reinout]

Not being able to reply to an old, archived news message in Google Groups doesn't seem so strange/bad to me:

Google groups is basically only an interface/archive to the existing internet newsgoup mechanism. If you'd reply to a year-old message in some newsgroup that got archived in google groups... you would be sending a reply to the newsgroup itself, thereby giving the whole readership of that newsgroup (let's say some 200 people) an answer to a year-old question.

Seen in this light, I wouldn't count this against google.

Reinout