It is. You're bringing to my attention things I haven't included in my overview.
A friend of mine who's been in the programming field for decades in the SF penninsula told me a few years ago that all the bright people he knew at Google had left because it had ceased to be the kind of place that it had been. On Apr 17, 2014 8:56 AM, "Raul Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been trying to understand google. I use their free email > software and their browser and in the past I have used their ad > services (when I was working for usatoday), and their search > offerings. > > I've stopped working in the ad business, at least temporarily, because > I've stopped working for usatoday. I've stopped using their search > offerings because I did not like a variety of the recent changes to it > (though I miss image search and sometimes return for that, I mostly > use duckduckgo now). > > Recently, I've started to see a variety of regressions on their > browser which are encouraging me to abandon it. APL Font support, for > example, does not work properly on current Chrome. There are other > issues, but my overall impression is that there are people within > google who are actively trying to make the company fail. > > What's interesting is that this corresponds to public statements > reflecting the unhappiness of some people there with the decisions of > managers which they have hired. A perhaps related issue is how > traditional the company looks when you look at its job offerings and > how deeply that conflicts with the reputation cultivated by its > announcements and press releases. > > I am still mulling this over. > > But, for now, I'm just noting that more and more I'm being driven away > from google offerings and towards other offerings. It's... > interesting. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
