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I was at google while the nymwars were going on. The debate was just as heated and polarizing inside google as it was externally. I'm also surprised (pleasantly
by chetanahuja 12y ago
I was at google while the nymwars were going on. The debate was just as heated and polarizing inside google as it was externally. I'm also surprised (pleasantly) to see someone use the A word here. I think this is an attempt to start over after exit and/or political defeat of certain high level execs.
But I also think it may be too late. G+ has missed the bus to be anything more than the butt of jokes and hilarious memes (A google employee ate a donut, here's a picture etc..). Certainly a lesson in there somewhere about hubris and corrupting influence of power etc.
- aiiane 12y agoVic did, in fact, approve this change well before he left. (It wasn't just an overnight switch flip, hence why it took a while to actually go live - policy documents have to be rewritten and approved, ux flows have to be modified, etc.)
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- chetanahuja 12y agoMaybe. You seem to have heard it directly from Vic. I think the more plausible scenario is the CEO finally having had enough and pulling the plug on both the name policy as well as Vic's tenure at google. How this sequence of events is then presented to the rest of the public (including rest of Google) would then be a matter of following a corporate playbook written by experts in that domain.
- aiiane 12y agoYou're allowed to be cynical, but I'm also allowed to tell you that you don't know how Google works internally. :)