Comments on: Facebook Stealing Googlers At An Alarming Rate

By: Industry Interactive Inc. » Blog Archive » Does size matter?

Industry Interactive Inc. » Blog Archive » Does size matter? — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:15:06 +0000

[...] had a few losses to Facebook over the past few months. Why on earth would that happen to a company that’s been rated best [...]

By: Here Comes The Google Mafia

Here Comes The Google Mafia — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:16:30 +0000

[...] to try their hand as venture capitalists and angel investors. (That is, if Facebook doesn’t nab them first). Just like the Paypal Mafia before them (Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, [...]

By: Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo Leaving Company

Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo Leaving Company — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:24:10 +0000

[...] the company feel D’Angelo just wants to do something different. Given the exodus of numerous Google employees to Facebook and Google & Yahoo responding to Facebook’s popularity with their own social connection [...]

By: FRRO Blog » Blog Archive » Another Google Exec Leaves for Facebook

FRRO Blog » Blog Archive » Another Google Exec Leaves for Facebook — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:37:15 +0000

[...] Gonzalez noted that this ongoing phenomenon have been dubbed as the “Facebook problem”, a term coined [...]

By: Zuckerberg Hires Another VP From Google: Elliot Schrage

Zuckerberg Hires Another VP From Google: Elliot Schrage — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:25:26 +0000

[...] Zuckerberg loves to hire folks from Google. His poaching started in earnest last year, and includes Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, CFO Gideon Yu, and others. The latest is Elliot [...]

By: Terbaik.Net » Blog Archive » Defection Watch: Google’s Director of Social Media Decides It’s More Social at Facebook

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:53:21 +0000

[...] as Facebook’s new COO Sheryl Sandberg, CFO Gideon Yu (formerly YouTube’s CFO) and a slew of others. Both at the top ranks and at the bottom, Facebook is finding that the best place to recruit is [...]

By: Terbaik.Net » Blog Archive » Defection Watch: Google’s Director of Social Media Decides It’s More Social at Facebook

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:53:21 +0000

By: Geekaholic: Want to work for Facebook?

Geekaholic: Want to work for Facebook? — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:36:56 +0000

[...] Techcrunch reports that Google employees are switching over to Facebook at ‘an alarming rate’. Gideon Yu and Benjamin Ling already switched, and Justin Rosenstein is the latest. It seems there is something that is pulling these people away from the ‘dream job’ they once had, working for Google. It really does seem that Facebook is the new Google, and Google; they’re calling it the new Microsoft. I don’t know how true that is, but it does seem really harsh. Facebook rather, seems to be the young and fresh entry, which seems to have high ambitions, great energy and the ‘want’ to do something. Those are qualities every engineer and developer wants in the team he works. Justin’s e-mail shows that as fact too. What I wonder is, how much is hype and how much is true. [...]

By: mpwebwizard » Blog Archive » Screen-Scraping on Facebook

mpwebwizard » Blog Archive » Screen-Scraping on Facebook — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:22:33 +0000

[...] were foolish in thinking that Facebook wouldn’t notice, they’ve employed some of the smartest Googlers around. Having said that, I probably would have done the same as him and not really considered the [...]

By: Here Comes The Google Mafia : New Web 2.0 Magazine

Here Comes The Google Mafia : New Web 2.0 Magazine — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:07:40 +0000

By: 7 Reasons Facebook is the Next Google « Jared Tame @ Phunctional

7 Reasons Facebook is the Next Google « Jared Tame @ Phunctional — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:09:25 +0000

[...] 3: Google employees love Facebook Google employees are leaving at an alarming rate to join Facebook. I remember reading an article a few years ago that speculated the next Google [...]

By: Bernie Lomax

Bernie Lomax — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:50:53 +0000

#74 - I couldn’t agree more.

Signing yearbooks in middle school teaches this lesson, keep it short, simple and sweet.

“Dude, this year ruled. I’ll miss you. Keep in touch”

By: Bernie Lomax

Bernie Lomax — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:45:56 +0000

I like Facebook although have been turned off by them lately. I also never use MySpace anymore and begin to think that this social networking - while great - is also a big waste of time. Ultimately, for all the hours spent updating a profile what do I get from it? And how quickly (yes search is the same) can I change from one site to another? A year ago we’d be arguing about how amazing MySpace is…amazing what can happen in a year. Google remains at the top and continues to expand and increase growth. Facebook has become a dominant force but lately has ran into a number of hurdles - I for one, see them as a fad; call me a skeptic, call me ignorant, but I feel they will fly high and slowly fade away.

By: Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Nov 28, 2007

Weekly Digest of the Social Networking Space: Nov 28, 2007 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:30:28 +0000

[...] Google is still clearly the established leader, there’s been a few rumors being discussed as Facebook as the “hot” company to work for, and talent leaves. With Google’s stock prices being so high, many who join are interested in the great culture, [...]

By: Kunal Kapoor

Kunal Kapoor — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:13:26 +0000

FB the next google, is that a joke!

Well honestly google is taking the web where MS forced people to go, and Steve Jobs only sulked why MC / Apple / Jobs could not!

Whoever is the big next gun, is just a matter of a good business strategy. FB focuses on people who want gimmicks, which does not last a long time, the next company will have to add value to people’s lives, value, not a cartoon strip!

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:31:46 +0000

Facebook will never overtake Google because their advertising is not nearly as targeted as Google. Facebook could get more traffic than any site(though I doubt it), but Google’s traffic will always be worth exponentially more.

By: bayareaguy

bayareaguy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:13:47 +0000

Google works by leveraging raw links. That worked well before the web went to crap. Facebook works by leveraging people and their relationships. This has the potential to work better since it involves less data and less crunching: if the X-expert in your social network is good at telling you quality(X,Y) is high then you don’t need an ungodly number of machines scrounging around computing eigenvalues. The system is also a little more resistant to link scam as long as people regularly keep their pages up to date.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:26:50 +0000

I deactivated my Facebook account because of all this hype.

However, I could not go 1 day with gmail + google calendar + talk. Why not just build a Google social network with the info they already have. They know my contacts and appointments. Let FB come out with an email/calendar/im client that is as good as gmail and then we can have this conversation.

By: Nate Too

Nate Too — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:19:02 +0000

@45-
If i didn’t know better I’d say you were Nick O’Neill. He likes to make massive unsubstantiated leaps of logic just like you.

Anyway, the only thing I can add to the flame is that 50m users does not equal 60% of all global searches. Not even close.

By: Nate Too

Nate Too — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:01:47 +0000

It’s a shame that TechCrunch goes Faux style for this piece and fails to do simple math followed by an over reaching and untrue title. Sleazy journalism pays though-I’m the 76th comment on this POS reporting.

GOOG employee base nearly 17k? They just hired over 1k right out of school.

FB= 300 total plus 400 in next year = 400/17000 = 2.35% and you call that alarming?

Maybe you should do some homework.

By: Web Design in Canada

Web Design in Canada — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:00:04 +0000

Now thats too funny. I love the amount of competition in this industry I was head hunted earlier this year…

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:26:50 +0000

Let me guess… Michael asked Nick to write this because his nose is already so brown from being too close to Zuck’s behind people are starting to smell it.

So according to this non factual advertising for Facebook, engineers are just lining up to get hired by a company that is primarily based on hype and has no real products. Let’s be honest, all they have is profile pages and a badly hacked up “developer API”. Experienced architects, and design gurus can only dream to get into a startup that is based on hacked PHP scripts and ruled by teenage VPs.

One good thing this post does however is disclose how sleazy some people can be. Rosenstein’s exit email is a good example of a what can happen to a spoiled disgruntled employee gone back stabber. I think no company with some integrity will ever want to hire this guy following his exit letter.

By: TheDuhMoment

TheDuhMoment — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:57:01 +0000

Overblown debate. I’m sure companies are also luring talent away from Facebook. The benefits are ok, but I know of a lot of other companies with more vacation time and a lot more money to pay big salaries.

By: WTH

WTH — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:47:55 +0000

hahaha. good for google. serves them for being “evil”. if its goodle vc facebook, im behind facebook all the way. and i was a google fanboy until i learned that they are the most evil company. and i think you guys know what i mean.

By: David Litsky

David Litsky — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:21:53 +0000

@70 - Google is a front end for a big database (the web) while Facebook is a tool to use your existing friends to find bits and pieces of the web that are recommended to you. Google itself is no better than Yahoo or Ask for scouring the web, it is just the most popular at this time. Honestly, I think Mahalo will ultimately be the search portal that unseats Google because they are putting together top notch SeRPs and with their new “No Results” page limits ones need to go to the other search portals.

As for your comment about FB killing productivity, that will change once the applications for the FB platform become more advanced. Facebook has only been around for about 3.5 years, and we have yet to see its full potential. There is a reason why everyone has started to copy their open platform model.