I knew the guy that developed Google maps before it was sold to Google, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of the funding came from the govt. The CIA very openly started an incubator fund in Silicon Valley in the 90's. I remember reading about it, though haven't heard anything since - big surprise.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > The BIG problem with Google is lack of senior management. Their credo > is to turn a bunch of young people loose on projects and see what they > come up with. So some young engineer thinks that maybe capturing the > wifi SSIDs of home networks when driving a Google Maps car through a > neighborhood might be useful someday and hey it might actually reward > him with a better position at Google. If he had a more senior manager > looking over his work he might be asked if he didn't feel that was an > intrusion into privacy and maybe something Google might not want in the > code because it WOULD raise privacy issues. > > Of course there will those who call fie on this because supposedly > "Google was funded by the CIA". Maybe they were. > > I call Google a "lemonade stand" because of the lack of senior guidance > at the company. I beat them hard over their "engineer dumps" which are > supposed to be documentation for Android. Lately I've been doing some > C# programming and once again when I look up something for C# on > Microsoft's site I get a short concise definition as well as a too the > point short example of the function. On Android there is some long > winded rambling description and some poor example code that sorta fails > to explain use properly. > > Google feels they don't have time to finish things because they need to > "stay ahead of the crowd" and rush on to the next "big thing." > > On 08/22/2013 08:09 PM, Seraphita wrote: > > > > Yahoo websites attracted more US visitors than Google in July, > > according to the most recent internet traffic numbers. A victory for > > Google's first female engineer, Marissa Mayer, who left Google to > > become CEO of Yahoo. > > > > > > Google are becoming a bit creepy and nosy-parkerish aren't they? > > >
