Google Will Open Research Center in China, Hire Microsoft VP to Run China Operation
News from the Googleplex today that the company is increasing their presence in China by opening a product research and development center sometime this quarter.
And now an item for your Google vs. Microsoft file.
Google also announced today that they’ve hired away Dr. Kai-Fu Lee from Microsoft (ouch!) to run Google’s operations in China.
Dr. Lee was most recently an MS corporate vice-president and also the founder of Microsoft’s research lab in Beijing. It will be interesting to see if Dr. Lee brings some/many/all of his MS colleagues with him to Google.
A plaintiff claims to have lost his job and suffered great humiliation at the hands of Google, which displays more than 10,000 search results “defaming or disparaging” him. Tokyo District Court granted an injunction; Google is reviewing the order.
A couple of fun search results appeared on Bing for a brief period Friday to fuel the fire between Microsoft’s search engine and their nemesis, Google. Here’s what Bing users found searching for “more evil than satan himself” and “hiybbprqag.”
Improve it or remove it. With Google's Panda Update, low-quality content can impact an entire domain, but removing these pages -- or moving them to a different domain…
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