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diesel828
10/01/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
What a stupid article. This really didn't have anything to say about Mayer... just one or two examples and suddenly we can paint a picture of who she really is? Right. And that section about her manipulation of Schmidt... someone take a reading comprehension class because interpreting that segment into a manipulation of the execs is like saying hurricanes happen because god hates gays.
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shag_carpet_bomb
03/10/09

In reply to With Layoffs Looming, Is the "Google Magic" Gone?
There is a giant, empty office with lovely views of Seattle and Lake Washington, that Google was supposed to move into, 6 months ago. All I know is that Kirkland's tax base is devastated and we're not getting a new fullcourt basketball court in the park behind our house and they won't be watering the grass this summer. BASTARDS!
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macbeach
03/09/09

In reply to With Layoffs Looming, Is the "Google Magic" Gone?
Twitter is to Google as Viso was to Microsoft. Interesting product that makes the "suite" more complete. If they don't get Twitter and think they need such a thing it can be easily duplicated. It doesn't even HAVE to make money to be useful in its capacity to round out something that is already in place (and making money).

As Microsoft used to do, they are waiting for products to prove themselves on their own before making acquisitions. No problem there.

More puzzling is Google's failure to capitalize more on things they already own. Orkut and GrandCentral being examples. Why buy this stuff just to let it wither away?

SOMEONE at Google is failing to provide an architecture in which all these diverse products make some sense. The founders obviously aren't doing such things any more.
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OMG! Ponies!
03/09/09

In reply to With Layoffs Looming, Is the "Google Magic" Gone?
The bloom is off the Google rose. This was evident today when a portrait of William Shakespeare, made while the Bard was still alive, was discovered without the aid of Google's powerful search engine.
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blix
03/09/09

In reply to With Layoffs Looming, Is the "Google Magic" Gone?
Google magic aside, we could still kick their asses in Quidditch.
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BadUncle
03/09/09

In reply to With Layoffs Looming, Is the "Google Magic" Gone?
Classical Greece was also a democracy - for those who weren't slaves.
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chelseabill
03/09/09

In reply to With Layoffs Looming, Is the "Google Magic" Gone?
Twitter regected a deal of $100M cash plus $400M stock from Google a few months ago. How greedy are these Twitter fucks?
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its_a_feature
03/09/09

@chelseabill: It isn't a question of greed. The proper question is "How stupid are those Twitter f*cks?"
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Shadowlayer
03/09/09

@chelseabill: Overall, 500M from THE web company? and they said no?

Note to myself: give up anything revolutionary and come up with a recycled piece of crap idea that I can turn into a fad and sell for millions.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
03/09/09

In reply to With Layoffs Looming, Is the "Google Magic" Gone?
Not to worry, there's a certain BMW heiress that could use some googlin'
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judge9999
03/03/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
Wow pure and simple the bitch is stupid.

Guess getting on your knees means you can place 7000 out of 7800 eh?
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Owen Thomas
03/03/09

@judge9999: Good commenters are good at all comments. Goodbye!
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random_play
03/02/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
Still love her and her last-place-finishing cupcake butt. No way Larry and Sergey will ever let her leave. Otherwise, how will they decide between blue-green and slightly greener blue green?
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Vipula Kariyawasam
03/02/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
I started working from six years back normally started from 1mil. Within first month it was increas up to five mils within one our. Normally fat barning start after twenty mints working one of most power full tool to maintain health body.
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SteveR
03/02/09

@Vipula Kariyawasam: You know, I was having a conversation with a parking meter last night, and it said the exact same thing. Hmm...
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Owen Thomas
03/03/09

@SteveR: Don't feed the trolls. Just let us ban them.
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its_a_feature
03/02/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
Google may indeed be a meritocracy, but you need to remember that there is more than one way to measure "merit". For example, Marissa slept with the boss and is now a high-level Google executive. Perhaps she's been measured by her ability in the sack and not her technical prowess. Of course, given the geeky nature of Larry, her only real competition in that arena was probably Rosie Palm.
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siliconvalleydropout
03/02/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
"Ah yes, the Portland Marathon, in which Mayer placed 7,074th out of 7,862 contestants. Or the Birkebeiner ski race, in which she placed dead last in the women's competition. Good students are good at all things."

wow owen this part here made me lmao
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Phyllis Nefler
03/02/09

@siliconvalleydropout: Yes, I too let out a satisfied chortle.
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ektorp
03/01/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
Ha ha, she completed that marathon at an average pace of 15:46 per mile according to the results. Which means she flew to Portland and basically walked the 26.2 miles so that she can say she completed a marathon. What a way to demonstrate your athletic prowess. And totally not a transparent attempt to seem less girly, which is obviously bad for her image in more serious circles.
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i'm a bottle
03/02/09

@ektorp: 4:30 would be a decent time for a completely dilettantish female of her age; 5:28 is -- on similar, slightly hilly courses -- painfully slow even for the least serious runners.
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$Image of Terrafractal$ Terrafractal
03/01/09

In reply to Marissa Mayer: Google's Biggest Failure
Not for nothing, and this may be the scotch talking, but I've found (on a smaller scale) that businesses tend to benefit from employing someone with social skills who knows how to mediate and manipulate for the sake of getting things done. Meritocracy is a half-myth. How many programmers weren't graced with an upper-middle-class upbringing and access to technology from the get-go?

That being said, the perfectionist tendencies are a little rough. I wonder if she got any C's in college...though the one guy I know who works for Google never got less than an A in anything. Maybe this is a company-wide trend and the code monkeys who make the algorithms JUST RIGHT are press shy.
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Tremonius
03/02/09

@Terrafractal: Mr Gladwell convinces us that good fortune is a product of birth order, specifically: early in the year for hockey players and just before the big bam boom for industrialists and software moguls. He goes on to cite the number of Carnegys born in the 1840s just before the Industrial Revolution and in 1955 so they'd be in school during the digital divide. It helps that you're a rich kid around a university with plenty of toys to play with.

On a different note: there are surfing competitions where I live, and they award prizes to them as happen to be sitting when the big swell happens behind them. I think all of them have to be straight A stoonts before they're issued a wetsuit.
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