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What Would Google Do?

According to author Jeff Jarvis, taking a page out of the company's playbook could put the economy back on track.

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  • Posted By: YashBudini @ 01/28/2009 3:41:17 PM

    If the government decided to follow Google it would fire staff and hire H1-B employees. Let's start with the very senators and congress people who are supposed to represent the voters, not the lobbyists, as the first batch of inefficient incapable idiots to go.

    Google is no different than any other opportunistic American company that hires H1B slaves. And after a few mistakes the US will bail them out as well. Lobbyists = corporate welfare.

    Mr Jarvis needs a new mentor for doing his job. Geraldo and John Stossel are not a good choice.

  • Posted By: smeade @ 01/28/2009 3:21:11 PM

    Google is "gigantic" but also the leading example of "small is the new big"??? From this interview alone, I can tell you I won't be reading more disjointed opinion like that. Give me a break.

  • Posted By: networking4biz. @ 01/28/2009 2:18:38 PM

    Ha, Google is huge - maybe they need a 50 billion bailout.... but wait - maybe they should by an executive jet so they can fly to DC and explain why Pent House needs the bailout, o yeah - there is a girl at the end of my street that needs a helmet, can she get some bailout Funds? mR/ Obama.???

    www.networking4biz.com - we need a corporate jet as well, if you willing look us up?

  • Posted By: Ashiqur @ 01/28/2009 11:43:13 AM

    Newsweek really need to learn from MSNBC.com's website design. This webpage's texts are really not easy to read. Newsweek could have added more photo/video too.

    I think since Google is mainly a US company, it's richest people must step in to help build US economy, like what Microsoft's Bill Gates is doing.

  • Posted By: damian @ 01/28/2009 11:32:02 AM

    I dont know who is the bigger moron, the guy who did the interview or the guy being interviewed, both of whom know nothing about business. Google is just not at all comparable to capital intensive businesses like Boeing, or Caterpillar etc....How is being googley going to address the loss of high paying mfg jobs? Now if the interviewer had asked a question like that, he would be on the right track.

  • Posted By: gcv1 @ 01/28/2009 10:43:15 AM

    While I use Google extensively myself - search, homepage, gmail, chrome, GoogleTalk, Google Groups - I can't help feeling that Google is a massive bubble. It feels like a huge monolith without any real people inside. You see, I own a small yoga studio. By way of my address and phone number, Google has cleverly associated me with a prior yoga studio in the same location as mine. So now I get their reviews attached to my yoga studio. As the yoga style is the same and the earlier studio was quite popular, this might be beneficial to me. However, that studio closed amid allegations of being a cult and enslavement charges having been brought by some of the teachers. That is nasty stuff and I don't want to be associated with it - I was merely a student at the prior studio and am not even on speaking terms with the prior studio's owners - they fled town.

    But try as I might, I cannot find anyway to contact anybody at Google to have this associated broken. I don't want to be associated with a cult, and yet Google insists on doing it.

  • Posted By: mikewadestr @ 01/28/2009 10:06:27 AM

    Geez, journalism appears to be going the way of the economy. This is truly a stupid article.

  • Posted By: rebrab23 @ 01/28/2009 9:38:36 AM

    What would google to - this is complete BS -- Google is a one trick pony monopoly - THATS IT -
    They monopolized search - then found 55 ways to lose money - THATS the busienss model to follow ?? Google is just like the BANK or Insurance Companies -- but they still have a monopoly on search - once that goes - the company is done in about 5 minutes. Great logic -- Go get a billion dollar monopoly !!! then pretend to be innovative by finding 45 ways to lose millions while your one legal monopoly pays for your side projects!

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