Google Gets A9 Search Chief
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'"
- Constant X = The sentence "How'd you like to be a Vice President at Google?"
- Variable Y = A geek
Prove:X + Y = "Hell, yes!" for all values of Y.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
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."