Posted by ketyung
on Mar/03/2007
at 3:48 am
I’ve been in the IT field for couple of years, I know clearly there is always a fight between the sales personnel or the product manager and the engineers! Here is the story between Google and Yahoo.
According to UberPulse, through their conversation with Yahoo’s director of Real-Time Communications, Jeff Bonforte (pictured), Google is just not conducive to create products. Bonforte’s best product manager went to Google but eventually came back after six months due to he got sick and tired with Google’s chaotic culture! According to the product manager, he had no control of what he wanted during his 6 months at Google. In Google, simply engineers rule! And this guy claimed that Google’s products never show a dent in the market.
As a technical guy, I like very much the Google’s approach, i.e the engineers rule. I personally agree that most Google’s products are much better than Yahoo’s. Especially its search engine, Maps and Gmail. I’m no big user of Google’s product. Just simply compare the two I always use, the search engine and Gmail. Google search is simple yet effective for all of us, as everyone knows and it’s the result of engineers’ work and ruling. Furthermore, I’d been a Yahoo mail user before switching to GMail. What my comment on Yahoo mail is they’re just too sluggish for me to get things done! Especially with the newly launched beta, which is fully loaded with AJAX/DHTML. Undeniably, the interface is great, which almost works like an Outlook Express on the web, but it’s slow loading. Once I’ve switched to GMail, I really love it and I’ve got all my other email accounts from other domains to be redirected and consolidated in my GMail account! I love the way GMail does things, which helps organize email in threads and its great spam filters. These two features really kill Yahoo mail, which I hated most were its slow loading and hard to get my mail organized using its interface.
I’ve been an AJAX/DHTML developer, who also loves to see website loaded with AJAX and Web 2.0 kind of stuff. Look at GMail, it’s also AJAX/DHTML, the way it does it is simply great for its speed and its new way of getting users into organizing emails. If all these were the decision and ruling of engineers, then it simply proves that engineers know much better what’s the best technology that delivers the best result to the users but not the product managers, who normally fail to understand technology deeply! I can conclude that it’s the secret of success of Google, having engineers to rule! Does this hint that the post of product manager in a techie firm would be redundant soon?
Via [uberGizmo]
Google,Yahoo,GMail,Google Maps
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