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Does anyone have a link to this story? I remember it as: Way back when, a Google dev started to receive frequent cryptic emails. Each email contained a single
by windows2020 5y ago
Does anyone have a link to this story? I remember it as:
Way back when, a Google dev started to receive frequent cryptic emails. Each email contained a single number. They struggled to figure out what it represented, if anything. Somehow, it was realized the number represented the word count on their homepage.
This story comes to mind when I see promotions, statements and other things there. Perhaps someone should start emailing a byte count.
- sadjad 5y agohttps://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-comes-next-in-this-series-13-33-53.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-comes-next-in-t...
- dpritchett 5y ago> Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience The years really do fly by. Looked her up and she’s currently a cofounder at a company that sells an iOS contacts app.
- jcims 5y agoFor anyone that isn't aware, she was also a very early Google employee (wikipedia says #20) and CEO of Yahoo for several years.
- thallium205 5y agoAnd she absolutely ran it into the ground.
- seanieb 5y agoKinda hard to say it was just her. Yahoo! was already pretty much dead when she arrived.
- cowsandmilk 5y agoFor her first year, yahoo was growing in visits. 1 year into her tenure, yahoo had more visits than Google. The next four years were downhill. To me, that looks like Yahoo was on a path to recovery and she sunk it.
- codingdave 5y agoI was under the impression that running it into the ground was her job -- to turn it into a controlled crash rather than a completely unmanaged failure.
- boringg 5y agoYup time hasnt stopped yet. Been awhile since shes been in the press post yahoo sale. I guess that makes me kind of old.
- kingcharles 5y agoHow the mighty have fallen...
- prirun 5y ago