Here's an idea for an innovation: Fix the search page so that if I put in a query and click on "Images", it doesn't blank out my query and make me type it again. Ask.com has figured that one out, at least.
" "We also have people do things like Snippets. Every Monday, all the employees write an email that has five to seven bullet points on what you did the previous week. Being a search company, we take all the emails and make a giant Web page and index them."
I heard about this (from Batelle's book?) a while ago and thought what if more companies did it - at the end of every week publish a list of what you accomplished..then I realized most people would be scared because it makes everyone accountable for producing something. Nowadays, we do scrum at our company now so it wouldn't be a stretch.
Innovation number 10: Put the article on one page, not 9 different pages. Me being annoyed at waiting for 9 pages to load doesn't make me any more likely to click on your ads!
"... 'You're brilliant? We're hiring. Come work at Google,' ...'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.' ..."
So is spruiking for new-hires the point of the article?
It may be more legitimate than you think. Google is one of the few companies I've interviewed at that isn't scared of my startup bug. They've been able to attract people who are otherwise entrepreneurs and keep them there (as, I suppose, intrapreneurs).
