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Google's biggest mistake

What's been Google's biggest mistake so far? For awhile everyone said Google + was their biggest mistake but the site is still around and flourishing with new users.

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Marissa Mayer, Google's first female engineer and one of the first 20 hires, was recently interviewed on "Digg Dialogg" and asked what she considered Google's biggest mistakes:

1.) Google Wave: "Wave. Certainly there were things that we've learned from that, there were things that we would have done differently."
2.) DejaNews: "Shutting down Dejanews.com at 11 a.m. on a Monday morning, and not really having anywhere to post to or browse usegroups was perhaps a mistake"
3.) Gmail Launch: "Launching Gmail on April Fools day was widely misinterpreted. ... It wasn't a mistake as we planned it. It was just a mistake in how we executed."



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Marissa Mayer, Google's first female engineer and one of the first 20 hires? Indeed.

I'm surprised, shocked and amazed. Of course, I've never seen her resume so I had no idea of her background.

My first time hearing her name, it was linked to YAHOO and Tumblr.

I don't know enough about Google's business history to say what their "biggest mistakes" were. But I do know enough to say that letting Marissa Mayer resign to go and work for their competitors was not one of those mistakes. LOL. Straight talk.



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