Google blog must be the most boring blog ever
The official Google blog must be the most boring blog ever. It reads like a series of press releases. Google has this "incredibly fun place to work for" image but the blog doesn't reflect that at all. The posts are so formal sounding and adveritisory (sic) in nature that its no fun reading that blog. This is one area where Microsoft has scored over its rivals. They have really harnessed the power of the blogosphere to the max. Microsoft bloggers also tend to write many more anecdotal posts about working at Microsoft. Lot of hard core techies also blog which makes for excellent reading for developers outside of MSFT. Lastly, many MSFT bloggers have openly questioned internal policies and decisions publicly on their blogs and not gotten fired for doing that!
I did write an email to Google complaining about the boring nature of their blog but never heard back. So maybe this post will catch their attention ;-)
Disclaimer: I am ex-Microsoft so my views could very well be biased
Comments
you're damn right dude. Google strangely has no means to allow the users to give feedback, it has so many softwares in Beta ,but no means for a user to report a problem, that's really strange. And they still have some problems with GMail and some of their other software.
However the google blog does keep us updated about there plans, allowing the employees to write posts is a good idea btw.
Posted by: Kirti Dhingra | January 19, 2006 09:34 PM
just check out Xooglers - very, very interesting stuff.
Posted by: Sandeep | January 25, 2006 11:10 PM