<![CDATA[Google to lay off 15 percent at DoubleClick - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Google to lay off 15 percent at DoubleClick - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Google to lay off 15 percent at DoubleClick]]> Joeballzzz da man

sanattof

]]> <![CDATA[Google to lay off 15 percent at DoubleClick]]> Google has been The Man for awhile now. Their sad attempts at hipness, edginess, and environmental awareness are blatantly undermined by their arrogance, their willingness to accept government pork to pay for their electricity, networking and infrastructure on our dimes, and the fact that, after all the acquisitions and "20%" time spent on groundbreaking projects, the best they can show investors is an ad serving environment rife with click fraud, link farms, and duping searchers. In desperation, they are now trying to usurp retailers' own websites by enticing the user to search their sites IN Google so they can show competitor's ads, thereby steering the user away from retailers' own searches, which are obviously geared to selling their own products the way the retailer chooses to. In essence, we have an outrageous valuation on a company whose tactics are the online equivalent of standing outside a merchants door trying to bar entry and offering flyers for competitors down the street, and whose best customers are the equivalent of folks who put up fake storefronts and collect click profits from advertisers who don't know any better. Best search engine, fantastic email solution, great API development tools. Period.

Peccary

]]> <![CDATA[Google to lay off 15 percent at DoubleClick]]> Where to even begin here? First off I would like to reiterate that allegedly Google was shocked to find out that some DoubleClick employees did NOT actually graduate from Ivy League institutions. This discovery led to the first Google plan which was to lay off all city college and state university graduates. Clearly those people do not belong in a combined organization. When further analysis showed that to be well in excess of 90% of the DoubleClick work force they decided to just go after the city college graduates for now, arriving at the 15% number.

Thus, to reiterate the alleged official policy, Google is firmly committed to a diverse workforce of both Ivy League graduates who are not black and, for now, state university graduates who are not black.

WagCurious

]]> <![CDATA[Google to lay off 15 percent at DoubleClick]]> um that makes no sense, why only cut 20% of the sales team responsible for a product your planing to give away for free?

OnYourEnemiesList

]]> <![CDATA[Google to lay off 15 percent at DoubleClick]]> The best part of that wonky HBS abstract is that Enron is singled out as a hot, high-performance company that uses the totem pole ranking. Wonder if perception of the practice has changed in the 6+ years since it was published?

seth_barnburner

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