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.'"

Comments

well duh

[DNS-and-BIND]

Obviously, Google can only go down. Their people are "arrogant" because they know they have the right product, and refuse to kowtow to business people who have no new ideas and only know how to do business one way.

After the IPO, Google will grow crappier and crappier, and eventually become Just Another Site. This crappiness will be mandated by the businessmen who will control the company. Since a businessman's goal is not to make a profit, but to maximize profits, Google will begin abusing its position, and in general, becoming more like the Microsoft of web searches. They'll make their site less informative, remove the "fun" stuff like the enchefilizer and Google Groups, and in general behave like assholes. That's what businessmen do!

All we can do is hope a new contender steps up. But, this probably won't happen. Sigh.

Re:Google has no problem.

[perly-king-69]

I guess it all depends on whether your definition of WORLD stretches out beyond the Atlantic or Pacific...

Re:Phooey. What a load of spin.

[MSBob]

MBA Morons. Do they think that I'll go to Yahoo to search for stuff because it has five million links on its front page peddling some wares from undead dotcoms?

The reason why google is successful has as much to do with its website's simplicity as it has to do with the superiority of its search engine. But I guess it takes more than an average MBA to figure that out.