Re:Google Layoffs in the Thousands with More to Come This Week
by gaius on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @02:02AM
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Google would certainly like to be thought of as the greatest place to work ever, but if you read about Netscape they had all that in '94, 5 years before Google. Secondly, if you use Google's "free" products then you are not their customer. You are their product. They sell you to their advertisers. That's neither good nor bad, but it does need to be acknowledged.
Regardless of what you feel personally about Google, you must admit that they have manipulated their public image skillfully.
Re:Google Layoffs in the Thousands with More to Come This Week
by yters on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @04:45AM
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Plus, from what I've read of people around during the beginning of other major tech companies, I'm not sure Google's approach is all that unique. Their uniqueness may stem more from our short term memory.
This article states they are acting within the law not outside of it.
The NDA's are there to hide information they don't want in the hands of their competitors. I would think even the tiniest bit of information can be used by a competitor to extrapolate what is going on behind the scenes in Google.