Valleywag
Google fiascos, Spring 2006 edition:
- Google Page Creator, which crashed on Day 1
- The Larry lecture, a harsh reminder that 20% projects are not playtime
- Google PR hiring pitch, sent to team leaders at PR agencies
- Google Press Day, where the company about to provide San Francisco with free wifi couldn't get a network up during the announcement of four new products
- Invitations to Press Day, accidentally sent to a revealed mailing list, including several non-invited journalists
- Candygate, the inexplicable disappearance of M&M's from some Google snack rooms
Google co-founder Larry Page, last week:
We are a little over the edge right now in terms of our disorganisation.
Yeah, Larry, might wanna work on that before you "organize the world's information."
Google admits to being disorganised [VNUnet]
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A couple of Google launches were crashing and/ or slow (and some non-existent). Google Calendar, Google Analytics, Google Co-op, and Google Base, off the top of my head. I think that was part why Google introduced the Google Labs vs Beta separation -- time will tell if that is more meaningful. If it is we shouldn't see non-Labs apps crashing! But ya gotta admit this: for such a large corporation they're incredibly good at keeping secrets. There's only little that leaks (your blog being one of the leakages in the system lately).
Good point. And my best insiders have vanished lately. Now bribing new ones.
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