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Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by jacquesm on Friday October 21, 2016 @10:53AM (#12760930)
> I always believed Google was successful because it was pushed and advocated for by geeks, I feel that those days are coming to an end.

Those days ended the day Google went public, and quite possibly well before then.

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Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by guelo on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:57PM (#12762153)
I think the change happened when Eric Schmidt left and Larry Page gave his "more wood behind fewer arrows" speech, which meant engineers down product managers up.
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Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by yuhong on Friday October 21, 2016 @03:11PM (#12763613)
Maybe, but I want more details on what exactly is happening though.
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