Google's First Employee Departs

redletterdave writes "Craig Silverstein, the first employee hired by Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, will leave the search giant for Khan Academy, an online education portal based in Mountain View, Calif. Silverstein had been with Google shortly after it first launched in the garage of Susan Wojcicki, a friend of both Page and Brin, in September 1998. He had helped Brin and Page develop infrastructure when Google was just a Stanford grad school project, but when he officially joined the company, Silverstein became its technology director. The Khan Academy, where Silverstein is heading next, is a not-for-profit organization that aspires to change the education industry by providing free 'world-class education to anyone anywhere.' Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is an enormous fan of the service, telling CNN that he uses it with his kids."

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Bill Gates has kids?

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Seriously?

I remember discovering Google when it started as the alternative to Deja Vu for archived usenet posts. Search came later, I don't remember what I was using before Google to be honest. Netscape search site perhaps.

Now looking for a Google replacement. I think they're ebil moneygrubbers now to be quite honest. The do evil. In spades.