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- chubbybunny, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19You obviously haven't heard of Google's `20% percent time'.
From: http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=about.html
"Google engineers all have "20 percent time" in which they're free to pursue projects t hey're passionate about. This freedom has already produced Google News, Google Suggest, AdSense for Content, and Orkut %u2013 products which might otherwise have taken an entire start-up to launch."
And: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/googles-20-percent-time-in-action.html
"The 20 percent time is a well-known part of our philosophy here, enabling engineers to spend one day a week working on projects that aren't necessarily in our job descriptions. You can use the time to develop something new, or if you see something that's broken, you can use the time to fix it. And this is how I recently worked up a new feature for Google Reader."
Nice try, though. - MaxTheSheep, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Seriously, why do people constantly push the point that one company is better over the other? Opinions are great and all, but I have to admit that both companies do wonderful work and strive to make what they currently have better. I'm all for Google, but at least I respect Yahoo enough to actually know how they work.
Before you start slapping logos on your chest and becoming the ultimate fanboi, you should actually learn about the competition. Informed opinions need to have INFORMATION behind them. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Why do you people need to take this and start slamming other companies?
- Odweaver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Engineer 1: HAY GUYS LETS BUILD A POTATO GUN!
Others: YEAH!! - rzurad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5who cares which company does what better. Leaving that be, I think we can all agree that more companies need more "hack days" and "20% times".
- commodore64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Nope, the post-it came about because of a type of glue that was supposed to be very strong but was very weak. Art Fry then used the notes as bookmarks in his hymnal and the idea grew from there, 3M actually rejected the post-it notes the first time they were submitted.
- argblat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wouldn't be so quick to write off Yahoo. While I haven't used the page to actually search anything in a very long time...they have made some smart acquisitions in the recent past, and it certainly seems like they have an ear to the tracks and understand where the train is headed.
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It doesn't matter who you say is better, it matters who you use. Who you use is what counts. Actually, what ads people click on is all that matters.
- pritch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I believe 3M do something similar. Rumour has it, that's how the Post-it note adhesive came about. I think they go with the Google type thing, where R&D staff get a certain percentage of time to persue their own projects.
- zimm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2meh... they just stole another idea from google and changed the name.
yahoo can barely keep their normal things running right.
let alone some "hack" (lol) thought up by one of their engineers.
real funny we never heard of this before googles idea hit it big too. yahoo has been around a long time. - tempest, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2It's a shame Yahoo is no longer relevant.
I would say cool! if they did this, say 8 years ago when yahoo was actually usefull. - lefthandedlinux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0too bad yahoo's hackers cant code any decent html && css && javascript for news.yahoo.com which looks like sh!t in anything other than a 800x600 screen resolution, and considering the huge trailing end of the URLS in yahoo news i can imagine thier servers & content is a HUGE mess that is really beyond repair and probably just needs to be scrapped...
- intricate, on 10/12/2007, -13/+9Sounds like any other day at Microsoft, except for the part where they try to build stuff that are cool.
- dcer, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Hack the planet!!!
Ok, I'm gone... ^_^ - nicklinus, on 10/12/2007, -35/+2Just another reason why yahoo is better, they get the job done but they can still have fun. Where google gets the job done but it is really badly done, because every worker they have wants to go play.
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