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Personally, I'm amazed that they let him blog stuff in this detail about MS's search business practices. Not speaking for the org or about the official stance,
by jamesaguilar 13y ago
Personally, I'm amazed that they let him blog stuff in this detail about MS's search business practices. Not speaking for the org or about the official stance, but I would not consider doing so as a member of SI at Google. And I always had the intuition that MS was even more restrictive about such things. Maybe not?
- antics 13y agoI didn't say anything that isn't completely public knowledge. And let's not forget that MS once employed Robert Scoble. So we can't be all bad. EDIT: and let's be realistic. The papers on search that come out of MSR expose way more about our infrastructure than the paltry sum presented in this post.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoInsiders can often link bits of public knowledge in a way that effectively discloses confidential information. Every company has a different threshold for where this is, so maybe you're on the safe side of that for your org. BTW, I'm not trying to accuse you of malfeasance, I'm just saying I wouldn't do what you're doing.
- antics 13y agoHmmmmm. Well that is definitely worrying...
- antics 13y agoFun update, a Google executive just emailed me to say how much he liked this post. So there's that.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoYour competitor enjoys hearing about the dysfunction in your org and some back slapping about how great a job Google is doing? Surprise surprise. :P
- antics 13y agoEr, what? I didn't say anything about dysfunction and I didn't pat anyone on the back. I did say things about the inherent difficulties of competing in the space though.
- nostrademons 13y agoMicrosoft is known to be quite blog-friendly, much moreso than Google. Blogs like MiniMSFT have been around for years with quite an irreverent take on the company.