Google Hires Vint Cerf

hsuwh writes "Google has hired Internet pioneer Vint Cerf away from MCI as its "Chief Internet Evangelist". "He is one of the most important people alive today," said [Google CEO Eric] Schmidt, who has been friends with Cerf for more than 20 years. "Vint has put his heart and soul into making the Internet happen. I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google.""

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[ReformedExCon]

Boy, that Internet thing just isn't catching on. I guess we need someone to really spread the word about it!

Chief Internet Evangelist? Really?

a case of mistaken identity?

[ChipMonk]

Vint has put his heart and soul into making the Internet happen.

Are they sure they didn't hire Al Gore by mistake?

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Poor metaphor

[Red Flayer]

"I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google."

I can only think of one thing that people typically use the phrase "shovel out" with... and it begins with sh-.

I sure hope, for Google's sake, that he shovels out something else.

Re:Do they have a strategy behind this?

[richie2000]

I think they've taken Nokia's slogan and modified it a bit:

Google - Collecting people

love or hate?

[jshaped]

I forget, do we love or hate google?

(are they becoming an unstoppable giant?)

Re:love or hate?

[Anonymous Coward]

Simple rules for Slashdot Slashbots:

We love Google. Always.

We love Apple. Always.

We love Linux past the point of sanity. There is nothing which couldn't be made better with Linux.

We love the FCC when they're regulating spectrum, except when they're actually selling a usage license. We hate the FCC if they're doing anything outside of that, like sneezing.

We hate Microsoft, always. If somebody in Redmond catches a cold,we gloat. If Microsoft releases a bug patch, it's an example of shoddy work (Whereas bug patches in open source are CLEARLY an example of high-quality work! No double standard there.).

We moderately dislike the Democrats, but since they're the party of opposition to Sat^H^H^Hthe Republicans, we champion them like they were Gods incarnate (Unless Libertarianism comes up, of course).

Novell is evil, except when they're doing stuff with Linux. Or against Microsoft.

IBM is totally awesome. Except where POWER chips and Linux aren't concerned, there they suck.

Anything but X86 is the best instruction set ever. Except for IA64, which was also made by Intel, so it sucks. X86-64, because it was made by AMD, rules however, and fixes all of the problems anybody has ever had with anything remotely close to X86.

Intel is always expensive crap. Except where the Pentium M comes into play. There they're just expensive.

AMD is always cheap and kickass. Except for the FX chips, which aren't cheap. And the Turion, which is just cheap.

NVidia is evil for not releasing open source drivers for Linux. NVidia is saintly for releasing solid support for Linux.

ATI is saintly for releasing open source drivers for Linux. ATI is evil for not releasing solid support for Linux.

Any mention of BSD is a troll, unless the story explicitly mentions BSD, because mentioning another Open Source Operating System draws glory from the wonder that is Linux.

And so forth and so on...

Re:Wikipedia link

[justforaday]

Vint Cerf had sex with Al Gore?!? : o

The guy makes terrible puns

[keshto]

Look at the photo with the WaPo article (hint: look at the license plate).

Re:Google TLD?

[ScrewMaster]

.GOO? But wouldn't that be more appropriate for ... oh, forget it.

Now we know the final boss

[jeffimix]

"I beat the internet, the end guy was hard"

Re:Wikipedia link

[Xarius]

Yes

Yeah, here's a Wikipedia link about that:

[Headcase88]

Kharma Whoring

I have a twisted sense of humour, I suppose.