Comments on: Document Compare on Google S1

By: ingilizce tercüme

ingilizce tercüme — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:04:54 +0000

I was aware of the out of touch executives without quotes bomb I thought this one was new because of the management word…

By: Hush-Hush

Hush-Hush — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:06:19 +0000

It's still up there under "out of touch management."

A story for you: I was hired once, way back when, and was given quite a few shares of stock. I renegged, and glad of it, as I would have been WAY too impatient waiting for Sergei and Larry to get their collective acts together. I would have been worth about $3.5MM on paper today.

A few years later, I was interviewing again, and at that time was told there was no more stock to distribute.

Can you imagine how pissed off the most recent employees are, knowing that they got bupkis for a windfall? What would piss me off even more is knowing that all the goodies that came with being private (free food / drinks / on-site chef) will disappear as the shareholders clamor for more profits...

By: Apologetically Anenymous

Apologetically Anenymous — Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:33:04 +0000

Wouldn't it be common sense, Jason?

Let's say that, in a year, oh... 27% of Google's engineering staff is worth (individually) over $10 million. Not all of this 27% feels challenged or valued... and $10 million is a heck of a nice pile to -- if not retire on -- at least explore other options. Perhaps startups. Perhaps philanthropic endeavors.

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Of course, the more interesting question is: What will happen in AdWords, where quite a few hardworking folks are temps (not millionaires) who set next to permanent employees (multimillionaires) who are doing basically the same work.

Google is a good place. Really. But in 15 months, things are undoubtedly going to be more interesting and -- I'd guess -- more tension-filled than the Happy-Go-Lucky Google of today's fame.

By: jkottke

jkottke — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:59:04 +0000

Even so the it seems that line engineers are getting impatient.

Where exactly is the evidence for this? Or just speculation?

By: Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 02:33:35 +0000

I can’t help but wonder: Is this the first case of a major press outlet being fooled by a Googlebomb?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:39:09 +0000

Even so the it seems that line engineers are getting impatient. I expect all hell to break loose after the lockup is over. There will be a search start-up on every corner of Sunnyvale by this time next year.

By: pb

pb — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:01:00 +0000

At some point, Google or someone, needs to incorporate user clicking into the algorithm. Google is too one-directional as it is.

By: Scott Rafer

Scott Rafer — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:04:51 +0000

Apparently the bomb is still booming, but to your question: Eventually a Google bomb will fade, but the statistical likelihood of it dropping beneath the “first page” threshold in one day, on a particular day, is incredibly small.

By: John Battelle

John Battelle — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:53:08 +0000

Interesting, but what I checked was “out of touch management” with the quotes. It works *without* the quotes. I was aware of the “out of touch executives” (without quotes) bomb, I thought this one was new because of the “management” word.

By: ID:entity

ID:entity — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:29:15 +0000

Couple of links related to successful G-bombs:-

http://blog.outer-court.com/googlebomb/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

most amusing, enjoy all.