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With Layoffs Looming, Is the "Google Magic" Gone?

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shag_carpet_bomb
03/10/09

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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

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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

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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

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Google magic aside, we could still kick their asses in Quidditch.
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BadUncle
03/09/09

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Classical Greece was also a democracy - for those who weren't slaves.
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chelseabill
03/09/09

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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

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Not to worry, there's a certain BMW heiress that could use some googlin'
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