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Yahoo intern shows why Google is more fun than Yahoo

Yahoo foosball - ValleywagWho cares about market share and search algorithms — an exhuberant Yahoo intern just inadvertently showed why working at Google totally beats working at Yahoo. Paul Stamatiou blogged his reasons for loving Yahoo without realizing what he's missing at Google.

[Update: Hi, Diggers! If this article seems immature, that's because it's satire! Enjoy, and remember that people who read the front page get free drugs and candy!]

  • Google's free food beats Yahoo's free drinks. And Yahoo's "Starbucks-type caffeine vendors" ain't got nothing on Google's mango lassi machine. (You had to look up "mango lassi," didn't you? You poor soul. Googlers know what mango lassis are and they drink them for lunch.)
  • "The coders are sociable!" he says. Yeah, Paul, that means you'll have to make banter. With geeks. Try that on a non-mango-lassi-filled stomach.
  • Paul gets to hang around famous bloggers Jeremy Zawodny and Caterina Fake. Oh, that's really exciting, that's so—MATT CUTTS, BITCH.
  • Paul like's Yahoo's foosball. Foosball (pictured). Dude, the Jumpcut office has foosball, and they've got, like, ten employees and no air conditioning.
  • What about massages?
  • Everyone at Yahoo is on Yahoo Instant Messenger. Unlike the real world, where everyone's on AIM except that one "fight the power" AOL hater. And she's on Skype.
  • Name for Yahoo HQ: Yahoo HQ. Name for Google HQ: Googleplex. You got owned. As the kids say, you got pwned. You got punned.

Next up: Why Yahoo is more fun than Google.

Inside Yahoo! [Paul Stamatiou]
Photo: allyson thought he should play some foosball [janeymoffat on Flickr]

8:02 AM on Wed Jun 28 2006
By Nick Douglas
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  • Haha, thanks for the traffic Nick. I'm awaiting your "Why Yahoo is more fun than Google" post. =)

  • Show of hands please, how many people want to see Paul get lost in the Tenderloin on a hundred-degree night in the middle of a power outage while gang violence rages through the darkness?

  • fyi blackjack, I have super night-vision and wolverine-like healing capabilities. :-P

  • Yeah, Blackjack, Paul will fuck you up and then make out with Jean Gray.

  • No big deal, we'll just have John Byrne rewrite Paul's life history first. :-) He'll go from confident superhero to angst-ridden fetal ball in 32 pages. Then we'll see if the Triad is impressed.

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