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more about #valleywag more comments → The Sneak: Needs more kiddie slides. #google more » ninety_nine: Well, the Webvan offices in New York were a two bedroom apartment in a drab building on 6th Avenue. #google more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Aeron chairs, fooseball, disco ball, ping pong, cereal, candy; yep #google more » HenryLovesFonzie: I have to say it - we had a better snack selection at Yahoo! #google more » BadUncle: Razor scooters? Still? I thought infantilizing technology workers had gone away. On the plus side: snacks! #google more » Brad Brown: That'l teech em' not too steel are jobs! more » homoviper: The End of Poverty? #google more » HenryLovesFonzie: These are the same people who were shocked when they learned Britney Spears was lip-syncing. #twitter more » Magister: Yeah - I don't particularly want a President who tweets and if you were vulnerable enough to believe it was really him, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn,... more » BadUncle: Shocking. I'll never trust a celebrity endorsement again. #twitter more » drunkexpatwriter: Next you'll tell me that Carolyn Keene didn't write The Secret Of The Old Clock. #twitter more » Drunken Economist: ..and now she's on Vivek Wadhwa's camel: (Sarah Lacey spews Pro-India Anti-China piece while on Wadhwa's Camel) [mindtaker.blogspot.com] .. and writ... more » raincoaster: Then: Fuck me gently with a chainsaw Now: nudge me with your foot gently. Everything is less fun now. #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto more » TheCaliDude: Countdown to when commenters start posting fake death notices to #tips in 5, 4, 3, 2... #twitter more » Drunken Economist: This has nothing to do with piracy, which all software companies have to cope with and include in their cost of doing business. This has EVERYTHING t... more » -
#cubicleculture
Google's New York Office Is a Glorious Catalog of Dot-Com Clichés
Techie office accoutrements like razor scooters and free food faced mass extinction at the end of the last dot-com boom nine years ago. Google brought them back in full force, judging from pictures of its New York office. More »
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#outsourcing
Indian Kids Work Cheap for Google
It's great that Google has contests awarding money and computers to schoolchildren. Less great: It gives the victor in India 1/20th of what an American kid gets for winning the same contest. More » -
#thewaywelivenow
Google Search Box Suggestions Allow Us to Peer into the Internet's Dark, Disturbing Id
There are things you don't tell your husband. There are things you don't tell your therapist. But virtually everything can go into Google's search box — for Google to re-broadcast to the world, via its "suggestion" feature. More » -
#mediawars
Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening to Leave Google
For the second time this week, News Corp. has promised to yank its content from Google, this time within "months." The conglomerate said loudly that search is profitless. But maybe that's just its way of making search hugely profitable. More » -
#conspiracies
Katie Couric Reveals Who Really Controls the Media
Katie Couric made a list of the "most powerful" people in media for Forbes and they're all... Jews. Kidding, only six of 11 are Jews. The real power belongs to computer nerds. Couric mentioned zero old media people. More » -
#copyfight
Google Forgot to Google Before Naming Programming Language
It would seem Google failed to effectively use its flagship service before rolling out its much-ballyhooed new programming language "Go:" Another language already had that name, and a significant profile on Google's own servers. More » -
#cubicleculture
Google's San Francisco Office Secrets Revealed by Farcical Lipdub
Lipdubs are the scourge of internet video, churned out by desperate would-be fameballers. But staff from Google's San Francisco office apparently can't resist making music videos, either. What workplace horrors made them turn to a sideline in Miley Cyrus impersonation? More »
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#howwelivenow
Google's Kid-Friendly Balls
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#wtf
People Begging Google to Be Their Stalker
Google said it can now keep a detailed list of everywhere you go, play your trips back like movies and generate "alerts" for unusual movements. Who wants this? The CIA? Nope: ordinary modern humans are asking to be tracked. Insane. More » -
#rolemodels
The Time Marissa Mayer Invented Google
Another month, another glossy fashion magazine spread for Marissa Mayer, this time in Glamour. We get it, already: the Google veep is a computer scientist in Oscar de la Renta; a nerd invited to prom. Why embellish her achievements? More » -
#fieldguide
The Insanely Rich Young Mobile Ad Broker You've Never Heard Of
No one knows what Facebook and Twitter are really worth, sexy though the startups may be. But AdMob, an obscure company in Silicon Valley's hinterlands, has a very clear, solid value: $750 million in stock from acquirer Google. Yay boring! More » -
#theolds
Old People Talking About the Internet: Rupert Murdoch Edition
Rupert Murdoch has revealed his secret plan for News Corp. to make money on the internet: Make News Corp. invisible, on the internet. Murdoch will leave The Google, rewrite copyright law, and teach you kids to stay off his lawn! More » -
#rumormonger
Another Google Heir Is Born: Larry Page's Son
Larry Page is now the co-creator of something other than the most important internet site in the world: A tipster whispers the Google co-founder is the father of a baby boy, as of Thursday. More » -
#yourprivacyisanillusion
Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
Today Google rolled out the "Google Dashboard," which is supposed to "protect your privacy" by offering control panels for the company's many products. But, really, it just scares the crap out of you. Google knows all. More » -
#valleywag
A Top Googler's Ominous Radio Fight
Google is trying to break into the music business. But the squeaky-clean company is aiming at a very grungy market, as Oscar de la Renta-wearing VP Marissa Mayer discovered during a recent — ultimately contentious — radio appearance. More » -
#rumormonger
Did Mrs. Google's Company Curl Into the Googleplex To Die?
For a company with deep support from Google, 23andMe seems awfully beset by problems: Two layoff rounds in five months and the departure of a co-founder. So when we hear the company is "hemorrhaging cash," we're inclined to believe it. More » -
#dontbeevil
Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
The town of Argleton, England doesn't exist, but you can search its white pages, look for nearby chiropractors and map a jog through town, because "Argleton" is on Google Maps. How'd the phantom town get there? Funny you should ask.
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#media
Auletta: Google feared buying the NYT would "sabotage their identity as a neutral search engine."
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#feuds
Jealous Google Lets Employees Flirt with Microsoft, But No Petting
Google takes it all back, baby. The company now acknowledges it was wrong to begrudge programmer Jon Skeet a Microsoft MVP Award, just because it came from The Enemy. He can accept the prize. But no whispering sweet nothings. More » -
#google
Sergey Brin Continues to Butter Up Mother-in-Law
<Google co-founder Sergey Brin knows how to pave the way for a smooth holiday season: Make sure your mother-in-law is invited to speak at a conference of "the nation's top thought leaders," sponsored by your company and some nonprofits. More »
