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Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane'
eldavojohn writes "Steve Ballmer spoke to the Seattle PI this week, commenting that Google's pace of employee growth is 'insane,' and the company has few successful businesses outside of Internet search and advertising. He referred to Google's non-search efforts as 'cute.' Google's current number of employees is nearly doubling each year. 'I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.' Mr. Ballmer went on complain that, in general, competition for good programmers has become an issue. Even 'hedge funds' are looking for skilled coders, making the HR fight between the two companies that much more challenging."
. . . the "monkeyboy" tag?
Steve, your showing off your true traits and motivations again.
If you really felt this way, you'd sit back and wait for Google to implode, and then hire all the best ex-google-ites for well under what they're being paid now.
But you're making such a fuss about it...whining really.
Steve here's a hint for you, it's called competition. Look it up some time.
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Novell agrees that google's growth is insane.
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
This is coming from the guy who ran around a stage screaming and flapping his arms about.
Google to MS: All your coders are belong to us!!
Well, if anybody knows "insane", it's Ballmer.
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So they have to sell one copy of Windows Vista to compensate. Big deal...
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Does anyone actually care what Steve says?
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I don't know, I use the maps on local.live.com much more frequently than maps.google.com. They are also way better than google earth.
I like gmail, but it's bee 3 years since I started using it and its still "beta". I'm a bit concerned google isn't very committed to their products.
And let's face it - this isn't 1998. The google search model sucks these days, and only worked great for the first few years because no one was exploiting their pagerank methodology. I get the same crap on Microsoft's search engine I do on Google. It doesn't matter which one I use, and for the 90% of people who juse use IE's defaults, it doesn't matter to them either.
Google has been riding on their successes from nearly a decade ago. I think google is in a much more difficult place than you imagine. If anything, their hiring fanatacism is a desperate attempt to find a diamond in the pile of coal. They are hoping that of the hundreds of turkeys they hire, one will think of something big, and they will be saved.
I'd say if google doesn't come up with something real fast, like in the next 3-5 years - they will be finished.
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