Google vs MS (Was Re: [Ilugc] Google vs Yahoo, again!)
- From: venkat83@xxxxxxxxx (Venkatraman S)
- Date: Tue Jul 1 20:08:21 2008
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Let me re-iterate that it is not my intention to say that Google is
"evil" --- howver, as companies become monopolies they tend to take
the "either you are with us or you are against us" attitude. This
is road from civility (inter-operability) towards "evil"ity. ;)
I have been hearing that Google is preferring to build tools inhouse than
using FOSS tools - though it contributes to OSS in its own sweet way - but i
am yet to see a 'really cool' FOSS tool from Google's stables.
Having said that, i find that the biggest asset in GOOG is there employees -
some of them who are not egomaniacs :)
I do not consider Y! here - am always confused whether they are a media
company or a tech company! btw...i happen to know of an instance wherein in
one of the Y! interviews(for their search team) - the interviewer ended up
asking the interviewee about the fields in the RSS feed :P and asked how the
individual fields that can be stored in a MySQL table.
Venkat
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