6 Jan 2009

Slap in the face...


Owen did it again...

After totally blowing the Schmidt - Obama relationship recently, he now tries to portrait a bad profile for Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President for Search Products & User Experience.

I was tempted to write something about his baloney, but Stephen Arnold of Beyond Search (I have to admit that I just discovered Beyond Search.. It is by far the best search related blog I now read) has already delivered a huge slap in Owen's face...


"One comment that stuck in my mind was this sentence: “Employees report that she’s famous for not preparing for meetings, making spur-of-the-moment decisions on products based on five-minute presentations.” After reading the article, I recalled the possibly apocryphal quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln. When a person called General Grant’s penchant for whiskey to President Lincoln’s attention, someone told me that Lincoln replied, “Find out what he’s drinking and send a case to my other generals.