It amazes me all the time how Google manages change and innovation. Again they are coming up with some quite interesting stuff.
How do they in fact manage change inside the organisation with the tremendous speed of growth internally on the one hand and on the other to push out so many inventions in the marketplace.
How do they organise? How do they communicate? How do they manage Culture and Identity? I want to learn, so please tell me.
A new thing I stumbled over yesterday is Google Suggest - Try it, its amazing!
UPDATE
Robert has some very interesting perspectives - her and her!
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Actually this time I was a bit disappointed by Google. Google Suggest is ofcourse breaking news, but partly the censorship algorithm (who decides what’s bad and what’s not anyway?) and partly that XmlHttpRequest isn’t a technology. This time Google waited for others to test it and make script examples that they could then rework and then copright (yes, the javascript running Google Suggest is copyrighted! - ha! so much for open source).
IMHO Google makes much better use of XmlHttpRequest in Gmail than on Suggest.
References for my arguments:
http://blog.bitflux.ch/archive/spotlight_like_livesearch_added.html - Google Suggest like search made months ago, if Google had launched a similair search when they launched Gmail - then I wouldn’t accuse them for anything! :)
Further XmlHttpRequest references, that I believe Google looked at once or twice: http://jpspan.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php?id=javascript:xmlhttprequest
Waaauu, nice insights - Thank’s Jacob. Would you know what they have in their pipeline?
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