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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving

Squirrel Boy is in a friggin panic. He’s got execs bailing out left and right. Yesterday it was his CIO and VP of engineering. I talked to him last night and he’s like, Dude, we give these idiots free lobster tails for lunch; we do their laundry and cut their hair; we’ve got pony rides on Tuesday afternoons. And we still can’t keep them. What the hell is going on? What do I have to do? Put up gates and guard shacks and those tire shredder things that they use at car rental places? Why is this happening to me?

So I told him the truth. I was like, Well, for one thing, you’re kind of pompous and self-centered and people don’t like you, and worse, you’re a terrible CEO and you don’t have any clue about how to run that place and in fact you’re not running it, Larry is, but just the fact that you all have to pretend that you run it speaks volumes about how messed up the place truly is. It’s not a company, it’s a cult, and frankly I can appreciate that because we’re a cult too and the fact is that cults are easier to run than companies. But you’re running a cult of children. And not just any children. You’ve got children of the corn type children.

You’ve got these weirdly smart and semi-nasty super-spoiled children who really believe they’re superior beings who shouldn’t have to work too hard and who really don’t take criticism well (because they’ve never received any in their sheltered little lives, and it just totally knocks them on their ass) and on top of all that they are almost entirely incapable of focusing on anything for more than a few minutes at a time. You’ve got an entire corporate culture built on ADHD and entitlement. Nice work, frigtard.

Plus you make a big deal of only hiring these super-high-IQ kiddies and the fact is that most of them truly are smart, but then you put them into this horribly dull and easy drone work on AdWords and AdSense and they’re all bored to tears and totally disappointed because they really really really thought they were going to do something meaningful with their lives and now they’re just worker bees — pampered worker bees, sure, but still — and maybe they should have taken that offer from McKinsey but they really thought Google was going to be so cool and blah blah blah.

And you know what? There is something really evil about taking thousands of the world’s smartest young people and using them to sell online text ads more efficiently. Really. Think of all the really interesting and important things that this pool of brainpower could be addressing.

So then I was done. Eric was just sitting there. I said, So? What do you think?

He goes, I think we’re going to put in the tire shredders. Okay. Thanks for the call. Talk to you soon.

Posted by Steve at 11:23 AM  

Labels: Google be evil

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Google News Hypocrisy: Walled Off Content

Michael Arrington

TechMeme founder Gabe Rivera makes an interesting observation on the Google News story all over the blogosphere today.

One thing that bugs me: they’re now hosting original news content, yet they prohibit other aggregators from crawling it (per robots.txt restrictions and TOS). Of course Google News relies on the openness of other organizations with original news content.

Google crawls news sites and grabs their content for republishing on Google News. They rely on the willingness of those news sites to get distribution on Google. But Google restricts others from crawling Google News itself via their robots.txt file and terms of use, which state that “you may not…use any robot, spider, other device or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the [Google News] Service.”

That policy wasn’t a problem when Google was simply aggregating news from around the web. But now they are hosting original news content, written by people that are involved in the story. And they are telling the world that no one else can crawl that content and display it. Yahoo News, TechMeme and every other non-Google owned news service on the web is restricted from using that content.

The restrictive policy hasn’t changed with the new feature launch, and this may just be an oversight. We’ll find out soon enough if Google intends to build a wall around this news content, or share it with the rest of the web.

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The company that helps the Chinese government trample freedom of speech and expression by willingly censoring the search results of Chinese citizens, now wants the U.S. government to treat Internet restrictions around the world as “international trade barriers.”

When will they get the moral courage to do the right thing?

Video by Dan Verton

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A quirky little thing I just thought about. Microsoft live.com the search engine from our brothers in Redmond Washington. LIVE.COM is supposed to be Microsoft’s answer to the Google monopoly over search on the web. As we all know Microsoft and Google do not exactly get along. I was thinking about why they chose that name live.com, doesn’t mean to live or does it mean that you are live.

So I was discussing today with a friend in the corporate motto of Google. Well actually the unofficial corporate motto of Google.

“Don’t be evil.”

but from what I understand this corporate motto for Google came out a number of years ago, and Microsoft only within the last couple years started this live.com search engine. So we know that the corporate motto don’t be evil preceded the domain where Microsoft runs its search @ live.com.

Funny thing needs to be observed here. Just look at the word.

Microsoft as I mentioned launched their answer to Google’s search engine on the domain live.com, spell live in reverse and you have evil.

Evil.com and “don’t be evil” why are these two messages the exact opposites.

Is that a coincidence or did Microsoft get that domain on purpose. Food for thought. Hmmmm.

As my mother always said “what wicked webs we weave”.

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Blowin’ the whistle on the big G-Boys.

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This is another Google swindle of the market. The GestapOOGLE police have release another over hyped PR media blitz full of G flavored bull s%@# again.

Not only is this a really really bad idea. Heres how i break it down. Its a free phone targeted at students and those who can’t afford a regular phone. So, we assume only poor people would use it. And poor people have no money. So why in all of the universe would you advertise to them? Thats like a big DUH!

Poor consumer + Ads = biggest waste of advertiser money possible.

Why does everything need to have Google powered ads?

I say fight back against the stupidest free phone idea i have ever heard.
BTW, Uber marketers at google want to increase their stock values so they can cash out. Don’t believe the hype.
THIS IS ANOTHER BS MARKETING PLOY BY THE GestapOOGLE. (yes i coined that term)

Google is the “digital Enron”, just wait and see. Besides it’s not a phone its a Platform Operating System.

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