To: Sergey and Larry
From: Steve
Subj: Strategic Thinking
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, right? Or as Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny wrote in his blog in response to Google’s Product Manager on the Fusion project, “Since it seems that you haven’t settled on a name for this ‘new’ product, I’d like to suggest My Google. We’ve found that the whole ‘my’ thing works pretty well over here.”
What’s next? Google coffee? How about a recruiting strategy modeled after Microsoft?