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Google's Turn To Be The Villain

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

caesar79 writes "The New York Times has an article titled "Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain" (also evil but at least free registration required) According to the article, the "go-getting" attitude of Google is coming across as arrogance to many people in the Valley. More importantly, it draws attention to the fact that Google has drained the market of talent, caused a 25% to 50% hike in salaries and made it difficult for startups to get funding."

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  1. 25-50% hike in salary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure thats going to make your average coder hate google...

  2. Google isn't the Borg... by QuantaStarFire · · Score: 5, Funny
    Yet so driven has Google been in its pursuit of new markets that at least a few in Silicon Valley are using an epithet to taunt Google that people here once reserved for Microsoft: "The Borg," a reference to an army of creatures in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" that took over civilization after civilization with machinelike precision.

    I disagree. I think Microsoft earned their title, and I doubt it's gonna go away. I'd like to think that the Google invasion is going over more like the story in Doom3:

    You are too late...Google no longer needs Internet Explorer! The innovation you saw was only the FIRST WAVE! The Google Browser is capable of sending MILLIONS of our ads into your world!

    Soon, the folks from Slashdot will be here, and with their computers, we will BRING THIS HELL TO EARTH!

    Or something to that effect, anyways.

    1. Re:Google isn't the Borg... by gmletzkojr · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think it may play out something more like this:

      Us: What happened?
      Us: Someone set up us the applications!
      Google: Hello Gentlemen!
      Google: All your searching are belong to us.
      Google: You are on the way to destruction.!
      Us: What you say?!
      Google: You have no chance to survive make your time.!
      Us: For great justice. !

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  3. To read this story without registering... by AndreyF · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...you type the URL into Google. Irony at it's best. :)

  4. Yeah right... by eno2001 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...because we can't let the worthless peons below "suit" level make more money, god forbid. Sorry, but coders do the REAL work(tm) and should be making at least 75-90% of what execs currently do. Whereas execs should be making about 60-75% of their current pay.

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  5. Choicest quote by snowwrestler · · Score: 5, Funny

    "When I meet with venture capitalists, or if I'm engaged in a conversation about going into partnership with someone, inevitably the question is, 'Why couldn't Google do what you're doing?' " said Craig Donato, the founder and chief executive of Oodle, a site for searching online classified listings more quickly.

    Geez, I wonder why the VC's always think of Google during our presentation for a search company named Oodle??

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  6. Re:Blah by pdxmac · · Score: 5, Funny

    "How dare google make better offers for top quality programmers! Who am I gonna hire at 10$ an hour with no overtime for 80 hours a week?!? Google is Evil!"

      I know Google is now competing with MSFT, YHOO, and AOL. But when did they take on EA?

  7. Re:Blah by Valiss · · Score: 5, Funny

    "How dare google make better offers for top quality programmers! Who am I gonna hire at 10$ an hour with no overtime for 80 hours a week?!? Google is Evil!"

    I didn't know my manager read slashdot!!

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  8. In more recent news . . . by Yocto+Yotta · · Score: 5, Funny
    "it draws attention to the fact that Google has drained the market of talent, caused a 25% to 50% hike in salaries and made it difficult for startups to get funding."


    According to highly credible sources, upset Google employees everywhere are demanding lower pay, citing heavy feelings of insult for the rediculous amount of money they are receiving for the minor, unimaginative work they are involved in.

    Google has locked the doors of all their development houses from the inside, fearing massive defection to more reasonable companies that tell their employees exactly what to do and when, eliminating the stifling processes of having to be creative. Updates to follow soon.
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