Google now bigger than IBM

An amazing thing happened today. Google's market value just surpassed IBM. This is an amazing feat. Is it a bubble? Is it a reflection of the inability of IBM to take risks and grow in new directions? Or maybe a little bit of both.

In my days at IBM, we had some of the best and brightest people working on search. We had tremendous resources and ground-breaking algorithms and patents related to web search. But, we were not allowed to build a consumer web search engine. Now most of those great researchers and engineers are at Yahoo and Google.





[Source Citation: Quotes are from Yahoo]