Yang loses his Google escape route - Valleywag Comments

Yang loses his Google escape route

macbeach — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:25:07 PST

What happened to the "Do no evil"?

I'm not sure that standing by while two competitors shoot each others feet off constitutes evil.

They'll have some work on their hands taking on all the fleeing customers though.

macbeach

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w00zy33 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:39:02 PST

this is smart, they just want to hurt ms financially by spending more to buy a devaluing property.

w00zy33

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mandarin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:27:35 PST

Of course Google would say not to accept the offer from MS.

mandarin

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Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:42:17 PST

@sample032: Yeah maybe it was you. With "its" versus "it's" I pretty much always assume I'm the one who fucked up.

Nicholas Carlson

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grubber — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:41:53 PST

@Sample032: he said it and fixed it. Apology half accepted.

grubber

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sample032 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:40:36 PST

@grubber: Or he fixed it, and I issue a half apology.

sample032

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sample032 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:38:46 PST

@grubber: I assume you mean me, since Nicholas never said either.

I was contracting 'it has' (it has been content).

If you were going to say the comma following either should be a semicolon, I'd agree, but he who mixes colons and semicolons up, himself, is in no position to notice or comment.

sample032

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grubber — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:36:22 PST

hiring?

grubber

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Benoit — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:35:09 PST

What happened to the "Do no evil"?

Benoit

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Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:33:29 PST

@grubber: It's true. I could.

Nicholas Carlson

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grubber — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:31:29 PST

You could use an editor: it's ---> its

grubber

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sample032 — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:29:04 PST

Yahoo doesn't really have cash flow problems. They're operating at a higher profit margin than a year ago. ~8% is low for the tech industry, but Exxon-Mobile's is 10%, so that's not an indicator of problems.

The only bad sign is that they're spending what cash they're sitting on, but the layoffs indicate that they're aware of this problem.

Search hasn't been Yahoo's thing for a while, either, it's been content. This Google meeting doesn't sound right.

sample032