Google have made an unusual appointment to their board - Dan Senor is now a VP at google responsible for Global Communications.

Dan Senor? Dan Senor? I know that name from somewhere.....

oh yes.

Neo Con Scumbag. http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Dan_Senor

Goodbye Google for ever. It was great while it lasted, but now it's over as you turn from providing a brilliant global services, to trying to rule the internet.

I'd wait and see what happens.

However, we don't complain when Google provides services on the back of a massive IPO, funded by shareholders and institutional investors.

These guys are in it to make money, and so if they start bringing people in to maximise that approach why should we be surprised?

It's the same as Man Utd. Public company means that they're now playing big boy's games to big boy's rules.

Joe

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
Neo Con Scumbag. http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Dan_Senor

Phan,
Calm down.
You're beginning to remind me of someone.... hmmm..... oh yes, George Galloway! I don't see how someone's Political persuasion or their CV for that matter will drastically alter the direction of Google as a corporation. He will more than likely be involved in negotiating better deals with their technology providers, cheaper electricity and better water rates- I doubt he will be involved much with the services they develop. He's probably more of a Corporate Services Director.

So presumably you would carry on shopping at M&S if Goebbels was the Corporate VP? Or even George Galloway?

If I remind you of George Galloway, that is a far, far better thing than reminding you of any other political leader in this country. Quite the compliment in fact.

Google have been big boys for some time and this isn't some attempt to enter a higher arena of some kind. They have been players since 2002 at least. Out of all the people they could employ, they chose a high profile, pro bush, pro-war, PNAC neo-conservative white house aide to help them promulgate their message (and, one wonders, to formulate it)

I'm sure they are employing him for his undoubted abilities, but they are not so naive to pretend that hiring this happy lie monger will a)go unnoticed, and b)be universally welcomed.

Perhaps they want to beef up the Google News Output with charmless material like this: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20031010.html
Karen, from Public Affairs Office, Baghdad writes:
You looked great on Fox earlier. Can you offer us any style tips?

Dan Senor
Glad to see that Fox has an audience in Iraq.


Google has hit the jackpot, quite clearly. Anyone have any clear ideas how they are going to leverage their success as a search engine on the internet? No? I bet Dan Senor has.

Will it be more simply cuddly and really useful things like the Google brought to us by Brin and Page? I think that is unlikely.