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Google has vastly more interesting software and services, so if that's the basis for a decision the winner is obvious. Of course that has nothing to do with th
by staunch 16y ago
Google has vastly more interesting software and services, so if that's the basis for a decision the winner is obvious.
Of course that has nothing to do with their decision. They're probably much more concerned with who's more likely to make Yelp successful going forward. That's also pretty obvious. They'd bet $200 million that Google is a better bet. Talk about putting your money where your mouth is.
- Tichy 16y agoIf they are working for Yelp, it seems unlikely that after the acquisition, Google will move them to the core search engine team. Good point about where are the better chances. They must really care for their product, then. I would assume it is a given that after an acquisition, you just try to get out of the company asap.
- eru 16y agoWe still have lots of the original XenSource team at Citrix.
- gaius 16y agoGoogle has vastly more interesting software Well, that's certainly the public perception, but I think the reality is more subtle. Like BigTable and MapReduce are just whitepapers outside of Google, but you can actually download and use Hadoop, and who wrote that?
- joshu 16y agoI worked at both. "Vastly" is an understatement.