Google Goes Globe-Trotting

Posted By: 40plusTechWorker @ 11/27/2007 10:54:34 PM

Comment: "On their first day in Bangalore, India, ... 500 rupees (about $13) to spend on "items that don't suck," with a prize awarded to the one who attains them at the highest discount. For Jini Kim, it's the first time she's bargained with street vendors. "I usually buy at Neiman Marcus," she says, after getting the price of a necklace down from 375 rupees to 250. Dan Siroker wins by snaring a deep burgundy sherwani???a traditional Indian outfit???for a third of the asking price.

Yes, teach them young on how to take advantage of the poor in other countries.

Posted By: Peeenut @ 11/15/2007 2:03:17 PM

Comment: As a 29 year old, female, undecided (but decidedly democrat) voter, I???m beginning to think Google might teach us a thing or two about how to choose our next president.

Simply put, is Barack Obama the Google APM our country needs right now?

Posted By: Hyperreal @ 11/09/2007 5:51:05 PM

Comment: I don't get the "no down time" idea. How the heck can people think if they can't sleep and spend time to themselves. This is a cult, not a company. Abusive.

Posted By: Ivy_evc @ 11/09/2007 1:55:34 PM

Comment: It is not easy for young people who make a small star_up company become to one of the most famous company in the world. Google also makes us easier get imformation from the Internet. The young people always make the world amazing!

Posted By: jbburro @ 11/07/2007 5:27:22 PM

Comment: What this is about is good humanitarion sense - learn of the differences, appreciate them, we are one world; and look at how you can bring Google and better life sustaining information access to other cultures. Bonding as a group is a side benefit to a bigger individual and collective journey.

Posted By: tim846 @ 11/06/2007 11:35:08 PM

Comment: I was also a young person that was handed a big responsibility at a small start-up company. I would have failed miserably if not for a strong and steady mentor that gave me advice and exposed me to situations that I would not have sought out on my own. Although I later left the company, I am now capable of managing large, 'overwhelming' projects that make seasoned managers uneasy. I applaud Google for their investment in both their own company and in creating great managers for the world. Countless companies and businesses will benefit from the training these young managers get from their Google years. Thanks, Google!

Posted By: deananash @ 11/06/2007 5:08:58 AM

Comment: I believe that the point isn't that they understand human behavior as much as it is to expose them - physically - to the very basic idea that there are significant cultural differences. Google wants to broaden their horizons.

Posted By: deananash @ 11/06/2007 5:08:30 AM

Comment: I believe that the point isn't that they understand human behavior as much as it is to expose them - physically - to the very basic idea that there are significant cultural differences. Google wants to broaden their horizons.

Posted By: keywords @ 11/05/2007 4:45:25 AM

Comment: This article clearly shows how far removed Google's algorithmic approach to information retrieval is from the "real world": It is naive to think that an understanding of human information-gathering behavior can be attained through a simple process of "osmosis" -- by simply sending engineers into culture they know little/nothing about for a week or two.

Posted By: anantavijay19 @ 11/05/2007 2:28:46 AM

Comment: Frankly the employer image of Google that has come out of this article (and several others) is quite frightening. It's all about straitjacketing employees into a corporate culture which is advertised as being "hip and jazzy".

Posted By: anantavijay19 @ 11/05/2007 2:28:20 AM

Comment: Frankly the employer image of Google that has come out of this article (and several others) is quite frightening. It's all about straitjacketing employees into a corporate culture which is advertised as being "hip and jazzy".

Posted By: anantavijay19 @ 11/05/2007 2:26:57 AM

Comment: Frankly the employer image of Google that has come out of this article (and several others) is quite frightening. It's all about straitjacketing employees into a corporate culture which is advertised as being "hip and jazzy".

Posted By: kkk222 @ 11/05/2007 12:26:49 AM

Comment: I frankly find this article quite racist. To put India in a such a bad light, is nothing but racist. India was a very very rich country before British plundered all Indian wealth and was used to fund patents which led to industrial revolution. For a writer, who is descendant of British plunderers, to raise fingers at Indian is quite appalling.