Delicious Founder Joins Google
Yahoo continues to bleed premium executive talent to Google. Last year Yahoo’s well-respected VP for Product Strategy Bradley Horowitz left for Google. Now Joshua Schachter, founder of Yahoo-owned social bookmarking service Delicious, joins Google six months after leaving Yahoo.
Delicious has been a major player in the social bookmarking space for the last five years. Google Bookmarks has been unable to overshadow Delicious thus far — but that may change now that Google has the founder of Delicious on their side.
Schachter doesn’t need money after selling Delicious to Yahoo for a rumored $20 million three years ago — but he craves to innovate. It was the difficulty of innovating within Yahoo that drove him away. Google must have offered him a fantastic opportunity to let loose his imagination. That can only mean good things for Google users.
(Photo by Patrick Tufts.)
Google Trends 9-11 Prank
Google Trends tracks hot search terms entered into Google. Considering the thousands of searches Google handles every second, it must have taken a lot of queries to pull off this prank. The second hottest US search term on Google Trends today is a Wingdings font depiction of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center Twin Towers on 9-11.
(Via Jaypee Habaradas.)
