Lucandrake Posted February 19, 2005 Posted February 19, 2005 http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/14/news/econo...dex.htm?cnn=yes Mark Jen landed a dream job with Google Inc. in January. He was fired less than a month later. His infraction? He ran a Web log, where he freely gabbed about his impressions of life at the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet search giant. 3 letters, lol. O, and sucks to be him. Anyways the main topic in there aint about google, its about...something like this For companies, the growing popularity of blogs is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, corporate managers recognize the power of word-of-mouth as a sales tool. On the other hand, they're acutely aware of the dangers inherent in the rapid and widespread dissemination of company information. yeah, I think thats it
Agozer Posted February 19, 2005 Posted February 19, 2005 In my opinion, Google could have looked into the matter more before firing him. Then again, we don't know how openly the man wrote about his experiences, so maybe he wrote about some company secrets or something.
NeuronMaster Posted February 19, 2005 Posted February 19, 2005 Idiot. To throw away a fantastic job. *shakes head*
montpics Posted February 19, 2005 Posted February 19, 2005 Weird. Showing pics/opinions to the web and get fired on the next day? You gotta be kidding!
Gryph Posted February 19, 2005 Posted February 19, 2005 He posted confidential financial information that Google doesn't want to let out on his blog.
Weirdy Posted February 19, 2005 Posted February 19, 2005 He posted confidential financial information that Google doesn't want to let out on his blog.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>it's called "conflict of interest" or something like that, que no?
Gryph Posted February 19, 2005 Posted February 19, 2005 Yeah. But Google is VERY secretive about it's financial numbers. Hell, they're secretive about everything, no body knows how many servers they use to run Google. Most people think that if it was ever revealed how many it would be one of the top 5 most powerful clusters in the world.
Lucandrake Posted February 19, 2005 Author Posted February 19, 2005 Why is google so hush hush? It's such a miltpurpuse search engine!
Gryph Posted February 19, 2005 Posted February 19, 2005 Google likes to keep a tight lid on their information so their competitors don't know.
Wizard Posted February 19, 2005 Posted February 19, 2005 Because they serve the world with information. No one needs to know where that information comes from!
Weirdy Posted February 19, 2005 Posted February 19, 2005 Because they serve the world with information. No one needs to know where that information comes from!<{POST_SNAPBACK}>and yet no one knows it's all 42 !
Lucandrake Posted February 19, 2005 Author Posted February 19, 2005 You guys got a point, never thought of it that way, those guys must be genius programers to do all that, how hard is it to build a search engine?
Gryph Posted February 19, 2005 Posted February 19, 2005 It's extremely challenging to come up with a good search algorithm like Google's.
Lucandrake Posted February 19, 2005 Author Posted February 19, 2005 (edited) Algorithms, my C++ teacher said to know that it is part of the basics of a computer, but he never explained what it was, time to use the power of google Well, I knida figured it was hard Edit: I don't get it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm Edited February 19, 2005 by Drake
Wizard Posted February 19, 2005 Posted February 19, 2005 Because they serve the world with information. No one needs to know where that information comes from!<{POST_SNAPBACK}>and yet no one knows it's all 42 ! <{POST_SNAPBACK}>DAMN FUKKIN' RIGHT
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