New Book Reveals Apple's Steve Jobs Was First Choice for Google CEO

Posted by Roblimo on Saturday April 9, 2011 @09:19AM from the do-no-evil-while-wearing-a-black-turtleneck dept.

A Reader notes, Steven Levy's latest book, In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives, lifts the lid on the secretive world of Google, revealing how the founders fell out with Apple's Steve Jobs and what happened in the search engine's exit from China. Levy claims that when Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were on the hunt for a chief executive they wanted Steve Jobs to take the job. Obviously, he didn't, and later the two companies became fierce rivals rather than allies.

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If we thought Google is evil now by Arancaytar · 2011-04-09 10:10 · Score: 0, Troll

If Jobs led Google: In order to search for anything, we would need little hand-held keyboardless Google devices that ran only on one proprietary Google OS, which would randomly blow up and fail to work while held in your left hand, and any search result that violated Google's decency standards (which would forbid nudity or the mention of homosexuality) would be blocked.