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Eric Schmidt Out, Larry Page In As Google CEO

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 20, 2011 @10:45AM from the as-if-you-care dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Google surprised just about everybody at its earnings call by announcing that Eric Schmidt, who had served as company CEO for more than a decade, would be stepping down and that cofounder Larry Page would take over. Schmidt will stay on as chairman and provide 'technology thought leadership,' whatever that is. When Schmidt, an old Sun hand, joined Google in 2001, it was seen as a move to turn the scrappy upstart into a mature company; now on his Twitter feed Schmidt proclaims that his 'adult supervision' is no longer needed."

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Clearly threatened by a real competitor in search? by rsborg · 2011-01-20 11:40 · Score: 5, Interesting

DuckDuckGo :-)

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Re:Hopefully Schmidt's privacy ideas leave with hi by _Sprocket_ · 2011-01-20 12:58 · Score: 5, Interesting

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/google-mocked/
"If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
What's more interesting is the next piece:

But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And [...] we're all subject, in the US, to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities.
Schmidt is telling us that Google is being served PATRIOT Act notices without breaking the law and telling us that they're being served. It's a pity everyone is hung up on the nothing-to-hide idiocy. Of course, it's little wonder we're missing the important pieces when served up ham-fisted attacks by the likes of Consumer Watchdog.