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Given the context, it's not much of a jump. Both the fact that this was said at an event after the "Search Plus Your World Launch" and also the strong emotion
by saturdaysaint 15y ago
Given the context, it's not much of a jump. Both the fact that this was said at an event after the "Search Plus Your World Launch" and also the strong emotion implied by "you should probably work somewhere else" indicate that this was mostly about their shift into social.
- Kylekramer 15y agoMy guess is the event had nothing to do with the launch, it seems more likely to be the weekly TGIF meeting (http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/culture.html http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/culture.html). I don't really see much strong emotion. It is a CEO saying this is the direction we are taking, so if you don't like it then you are going to continue to not like it. Of course, Lacy's take is the direction = SPYW as it was launched (as it is the news of the moment), which I more charitably interpret his words as direction = unification of Google products.
- Maascamp 15y agoI would argue that journalists shouldn't be making "jumps" at all. Report and critique the facts not what you think they may imply.
- falcolas 15y agoI disagree. I can get the "facts" from Twitter or Reddit or HN. What's missing from those streams, however, is a well thought out intellectual discussion about the facts and what they mean from different points of view. The OP is a bit light on discussion, however that doesn't mean they should do no discussion whatsoever.
- meepmorp 15y agoDid this really warrant downvotes? It's a perfectly reasonable point of view, calmly stated.