Google Hires Louis Monier, AltaVista Founder, From EBay June 23, 2005 18:15 EDT -- Google Inc., the most-used Internet search engine, hired Louis Monier, founder of the Alta Vista search engine and more recently the director of online auctioneer EBay Inc.'s advanced technology group.
I saw that and there is a very interesting interview with him about this move by John Battelle (co-founder of Wired magazine). - Michael
Sounds like to me google is going after some of its competition. Hiring these two looks to me to be google hiring these people from some of their competitors in order to gain the knowledge and experience of areas they wish to pursue. It looks to be a great move but it can backfire on them. If google alienates some of these other companies they are going to cut their own throats. This could lead some of these other companies to target google in a joint effort to maybe join the likes of Yahoo or MSN. Then yet again to conspire and weave a little more voodo. Maybe companies such as ebay and alta vista are placing moles to bring down the giant they call google....Please dont bash me I am on a roll...I love to weave this &^%$ LOL When you become as BIG as google is, everyone is looking to take you down. You have no friends or allies and money and power is the driving force. To spin this a little more. Did we not see some people from MSN jump ship to google some time back? This is food for thought and just want to see how many conspiracy's this thread creates or whether lol I am in for a beating
crazyhorse, that is an eye-opening article. for years, I have been interested in the reports that g filters content, allowing some, blocking others; maybe guided by the political persuasions and lifestyle choises of the g founders, staff, and (maybe) financiers.