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Re:Facebook's e-mail debacle: One 'bug' fix, but rollback im... by dasil003 on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @05:28AM (#4193256)
> and then I see a company like Google figuring out a time smear function to seamlessly account for a leap second in their servers to avoid cascading system changes... it's hard to feel the two companies are functioning on the same level.

Sorta makes you wish Google would stop chasing Facebook and just do their thing.

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Re:Facebook's e-mail debacle: One 'bug' fix, but rollback im... by bgilroy26 on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @06:10AM (#4193343)
Connecting site recommendations to user profiles has the potential to produce better, unspammable Google search results.

Google cannot allow other companies to get ahead of them on social search and remain competitive in their most important vertical.

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