Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday November 26, 2003 @11:56PM 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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All google, all the time by Frisky070802 · 2003-11-27 04:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Having commented on 2 math-related articles in 3 postings yesterday, I feel obliged to observe that this is the third Google article in the past day.
As if Google needed more publicity?
Hey, CmdrTaco and friends: time to implement a topic rationing system among the top-level articles, to spread them out? Or is this merely an indication that you have so many posts about Google, or so little about everything else, that it merits this much attention?

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Mencken had it right. So glad that's old news.