For many years when New York City startups were bought by West Coast firms they were forced to relocate (Yahoo and Microsoft being the biggest offenders here), because the acquirers did not have a sufficient New York presence and almost certainly had no engineering presence here. Google changed this dramatically by building a large engineering team and overall presence here in Manhattan. Demonstrating that this is not only possible for a West Coast firm but a competitive advantage for recruit...

For many years when New York City startups were bought by West Coast firms they were forced to relocate (Yahoo and Microsoft being the biggest offenders here), because the acquirers did not have a sufficient New York presence and almost certainly had no engineering presence here. Google changed this dramatically by building a large engineering team and overall presence here in Manhattan. Demonstrating that this is not only possible for a West Coast firm but a competitive advantage for recruit...

Yesterday I wrote about Apple’s update push of Safari and how easy it would have been for Apple to do the right thing. With Google’s most recent addition to search, “search within a site,” things are a bit more difficult to figure out. At the moment when you search on Google bestbuy you get a site search box in addition to the search results. The same is true for a number of other e-commerce and content sites (e.g. Washington Post). From the merchant’s or publisher’s perspective this is prett...

Yesterday I wrote about Apple’s update push of Safari and how easy it would have been for Apple to do the right thing. With Google’s most recent addition to search, “search within a site,” things are a bit more difficult to figure out. At the moment when you search on Google bestbuy you get a site search box in addition to the search results. The same is true for a number of other e-commerce and content sites (e.g. Washington Post). From the merchant’s or publisher’s perspective this is prett...

Don’t be evil?

Don’t be evil?