June 3rd, 2008
Googlers Googling For Ideas?
posted by Midwinter
As always, I was over on reddit, grabbing some mostly useless news and friffery to wind my brain down. Things didn’t go to plan though when I came across this post and was immediately struck by a resemblance to one I’d written myself not so many months back.
Uncanny coincidences are going to happen when you get a company the size of Google employing highly intelligent (for a part) graduates in computer sciences as if they were going out of style (they were never really in style). However, short of finding your code in an apps, could you ever really tell if a lone employee were to raise an idea as their own… and then release it with a big fat G on it?
I did some Googling and Snapping. It wasn’t hard to find a few interesting links where coincidence has crossed the line into severe uncertainty.
I think I like Microsoft.