Comments on: Google’s X factor: “Captain of Moonshots” describes secret lab

By: Liddell

Liddell — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:12:03 +0000

It seems inevitable that when a successfully innovative company achieves financial grandeur, it fails to understand how it got there, how to innovate. In the GOOG world, splattering the tech world with irrelevant innovations seems like an attempt to claim tech mind share. Trouble is that is innovation and disruption doesn’t work that way. Within the malevolent empire of any monopoly such as Google, there might be an iconoclast … my advice would be to leave … fast.

Watch the guys with Google polo shirts, with Microsoft backpacks, listen to their rhetoric and observe the sycophancy of well-paid stars within what have become utilities.

The tech world moves on at a pace .. thankfully!

By: heenan73

heenan73 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:34:21 +0000

It must be demoralizing to work on amazing new ideas, knowing that Google may just drop them without warning later, as it has with so many projects in the past. Even successful ones. Even a chance that Google might sell on an unwanted miracle of technology to another developer would be some support. But they never do.

Moonshots is an appropriate title – most get to orbit, but not to land. Just like most Apollo astronauts.

Mind you, a company that can’t let me set the default news search option as ‘Latest First’ won’t win many prizes for innovation. I suspect that “Google X” looks exactly like Facebook – the ‘wartime spirit’ is fuelling an urge to throw away all that’s good about Google, until all that’s left is a Facebook Facsimile.

Sad days for Google, and Google users.

By: voxnulla

voxnulla — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:52:02 +0000

Ads in space…..

By: Nico

Nico — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:06:14 +0000

Must be an awesome job!!