Remember when Google launched  Social Search 2.0 (Search Plus Your World) earlier this month, it integrated more of its own social network Google+ results within the search and left out other networks such as twitter and Facebook.  Twitter was pretty unhappy about it and complained and who can forget the famous slap fight on twitter by PR heads of both the companies.

 

Focusing on the notion of “Don’t be evil” in search a bunch of Facebook engineers – along with engineers from Twitter and MySpace created a completely new version of Google called Focusontheuser.org. Many user have also retaliated against the upgrade mechanism and now Google’s own employees are bashing Google.

 

Henry Blodget from BI wrote about the sad musing of a former Googler calling Search Plus Your World, saying that doctoring search results would have been “unthinkable” at the Google this person knew. Another insider said that after the issue blew up on an internal company-wide email list, employees were instructed not to discuss the issue in writing.

 

According to Pandodaily CEO Larry Page had this to say to employees at a Friday staff event after the Search Plus Your World launch:

 

“This is the path we’re headed down – a single unified, ‘beautiful’ product across everything. If you don’t get that, then you should probably work somewhere else.”

Now that’s a pretty big statement coming from the CEO of the Worlds best company to work for if you remember that just last week Fortune magazine ranked the company at the top and if the core ethics of the company are changing the whole search product is in jeopardy.

 

Furthermore that means more Googlers leaving the company towards companies like Facebook and Rovio etc. Is Google becoming the next Microsoft?

 

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