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.

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enabling totalitarian SPYING & TORTURE

[BlueBerry Pick'n]

... is taking its toll on the employees' SELF-IMAGE & KARMA? I have to be honest, I'd be ready to slash my own throat if I knew I'd been helping China or the US or other totalitarian corporate regimes to incarcerate & ruin the Lives of Users. Maybe they really were employees who honestly believed that they wouldn't become 'evil' corporate henchmen? Even the "War, Inc." star Cusack knows how to be a independent 'Igor'... (lame joke)... Anyway, get on out there, watch "Taking Liberties" & "This Is What Democracy Looks Like" ... & ask yourselves how you'd feel if you suddenly realized you worked for some real anti-democratic assholes... ================ BlueBerry Pick'n can be found @ ThisCanadian === " ... tolerance of intolerance is cowardice... " ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali. "We, two, form a Multitude" ~ Ovid. === "Silent Freedom is Freedom Silenced" =================

knife you in the chest for $5

[WK2]

Because the kids that aren't raised properly are the kids that grow up to teenagers who would knife you in the chest for $5.

I never realized that hitmen were so cheap! I'm going to look into an alternative solution to solving my problems.