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7 Google interviews: Insider information brought to you by Google employees.
The following are the interviews discussed at their site:
* Google’s goal: ‘Understand everything’
* Google’s Brin talks on Gmail future
* What Eric Schmidt found at Google
* Google’s man behind the curtain
* Google’s Blogger boss focuses on the user
* Questions for Froogle’s mastermind
* The Google interview 2.0
My Own Wild Speculations and Gossip
How far back those days seem – when Google understood both the end user, who surfs the engine, and the sub-set of those users, the webmasters that draw traffic from it. But things at Google, like everywhere else, seem to be changing. Did the money go to their heads? Have they forgotten their humble beginnings?
Though I’m currently upset with Google over that whole Autolink thing, I think this is just one of many bumps in the road. I predict that Google will do the smart thing, and give webmasters a Meta Tag to exclude them from printing information that links out to other sites against their will – or the blog community will continue to find workarounds for the solution and change their start pages to Yahoo, who has been more supportive of the changes of the web, such as the shift to collecting bookmarks, to collecting RSS feeds and reading blogs.
Any other site online that ignored their client’s wishes so blatantly would be out of business fast.
And yet, we’ll still use Google, just not as a primary engine anymore. Which one we’ll see will be up to how Google balances what they can do with what they should do – making the most amount of money without alienating their customer base.
