Decius wrote:
] So, Google... I mean, the thing is, like, Google has *60*
] PHDs! **60** The computer science department at Georgia Tech
] doesn't have *60* PHDs! What the hell do these people DO??
] Yeah, Google works really well, and it's really hard to scale
] something like to that level, and I respect that and so on
] and so forth, but *60* PHDs. It just doesn't seem like Google
] has changed all that much while I've been using it.
] It doesn't take a PHD to load DMOZ data into your website!
] If I had 60 PHDs for as long as Google has had them I'd have
] revolutionized the entire computing industry by now!

Actually, I count 72 PHDs at the College of Computing.

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/Faculty_Staff.html

But I think you're giving too much credit to advanced degrees. Said another way: perhaps you're expecting too much of them.

Or perhaps you're expecting them to let you in on everything.

My guess is that they spend a lot of time trying out new ideas. Some ideas don't work out at all. Others sort of work, but don't scale. Some may work alright, but don't fit into the Google brand. My order-of-magnitude guess is that one in a hundred new ideas makes it onto the Labs page.

You act as if Google today is the same as it was on Day One. Here are the current services: Froogle, Answers, Catalogs, Groups, Images, News, Directory, Wireless, Translations, and Web APIs.

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