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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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    Obliteracy: Words with explosions

  2. 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."

  3. 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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    GetOuttaMySpace - The Anti-Social Network
  4. What I'd Like to Know... by garrett714 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are all of A9's chairs still intact?

  5. 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!

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

    No, You the man!!

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