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Has Google Lost Its Mojo?
CWmike writes "Google looks as if it's on top of the world right now, holding an ever-increasing lion's share of the search market. So why do I think it's lost its mojo? Let's start with the way it treats its employees, writes Preston Gralla. Another example: Google employees, such as Sergey Solyanik, have started deserting the company. And its share price is down double that of the Dow or Nasdaq since November 2007. Even if Google has lost its mojo, why should you care? It won't make your searches any less effective, will it? Nope. But Google has its eyes on bigger things than search, notably your IT department. It's looking to displace Microsoft with hosted services like Google Apps, Gmail and Google Docs. Solyanik warns that Google's engineers care more about the 'coolness' of a service than about the service's effectiveness." Of course Google employees version of being mistreated is often laughable, and quite a shock when they look for their massage therapist at wherever they end up next.
Google has lost some of it's Mojo. But the good news is that they still have plenty of Mo-Nay. They are also high on the "X does not suck as bad as Y" matrix.
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One of the "benefits" for working at google is they'll give you up to $5000 to adopt a kid.
Clearly google is paving their own way to cheap underage chinese laborers in a few years.
Sergey Solyanik just left because the colleagues never referred to him as the cool Sergey.
All they have to do is find Dr. Evil's secret volcano layer and get it back. They're frickin' Google. If they can't do it no one can.
This actually reminds me of a story of the wandering engineer. They'd work for google, then move to MS because they lack quality control.
And because MS offered a 10% higher salary than they were making at Google.
The engineer would then transfer to Yahoo because MS isn't doing anything interesting.
And because Yahoo offered a 10% higher salary than they were making at MS.
They'd then move to Google and start the cycle anew because Yahoo wasn't on the cutting edge.
And because Google offered a 10% higher salary than they were making at Yahoo.
Yeah! And while we're at it, why should I have to pay taxes that go to old, sick and young people I don't even know! It's unjust!
May the Maths Be with you!
Because you live in an evil socialistic communist state of course!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.