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Google Gets A9 Search Chief

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-often-i-get-read-the-word-nabbed dept.

award tour writes "Red Herring has a story that Google has nabbed yet another high ranking employee from a competitor. Udi Manber, former CEO of A9, has joined Google as vice president of engineering. As slashdot readers would know 'Last year, Microsoft was involved with Google in a dispute over Google hiring away Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, the vice president of Microsoft's Natural Interactive Services division, and appointing him as the head of Google's research and development center in China'"

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  1. Left As An Exercise For The Reader by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 5, Funny
    Given:
    1. Constant X = The sentence "How'd you like to be a Vice President at Google?"
    2. Variable Y = A geek
    Prove:

    X + Y = "Hell, yes!" for all values of Y.

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  2. Some geeks get the best names. by Caspian · · Score: 2, Funny

    First, there was "Havoc Pennington". And now there is "Udi Manber". That sounds... I donno, it sounds kind of like the secret identity of a superhero from some funkadelic Blade Runner future...

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    1. Re:Some geeks get the best names. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      MOE: Moe's Tavern.
      BART: I'm looking for an Udi. Udi Manber.
      MOE: (shouting to bar patrons) Uhh, Udi Manber? Hey guys, has anyone found Udi Manber?!
      PATRONS: (laughing)
      BARNEY: No, keep looking for it! (Laughing)
      MOE: Why, you-- (into phone) The next time I see you I'm going to (random threats)
      BART: (laughing, hangs up)

  3. IT company employee trading by msbmsb · · Score: 5, Funny

    So how long until we start seeing "IT Company Employee" trading cards? It sounds like these guys are being moved around like baseball players.

    "Hey, I got Kai-Fu Lee's Bachelor's card!" "Cool, but you know after he got traded to Google, his publication stats tanked."

  4. Coaxing by Billosaur · · Score: 4, Funny
    Amazon.com has appointed a new chief executive, David Tennenhouse, 48, for its A9.com search unit after the former chief, Udi Manber, was coaxed away by Google to become the search giant's vice president of engineering.

    Here chief execuuuutive, gooood chief execuuuutive... come to Google... we've got some nice carrots for youuuuuuuu... C'mon, that's it...

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  5. What I'd Like to Know... by garrett714 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are all of A9's chairs still intact?

  6. Tricksy headhunters! by Tackhead · · Score: 4, Funny
    > My employees, stolen!!!oneone

    Precious is gone. No precious. Stolen from us! Wicked tricksy headhunters, alwaysss after our precious! Stealing them with offerses of cafffeteriasses full of ruined fisshes! We ought to wring their filthy little necks! Throw chairses at them them! Fucking kill them all!

  7. Hmmm... by Otter · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, does he still get his A9 discount at Amazon? Or did Google have to kick him another billion dollars in stock (which he'll sell, prompting another story from Zonk about how this demonstrates Google management's commitment to their company's future) to make up for the extra 3% he'll be paying for O'Reilly books?

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  8. Udi Man? by Gorimek · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, You the man!!

    (I bet he's sick of that joke...)

  9. Follow the money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That is all this is, executives accepting higher salaries at another company.

    All Google have demonstrated is that they are able to use their wallets to amass high-ranking employees with little loyalty to their workmates, and vanishingly small passion for their projects -- the key ingredients to stagnation in a once dynamic company.

  10. ObJoke... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I wouldn't employ a person whose work could be described as A9 search chief...