Comments on: Google hires Net pioneer Vint Cerf

Cerf, a co-developer of the Internet's backbone protocols, will aid Google in building a network infrastructure for future Net applications.

[gee672]

Marketing Ploy

Warning: This is Google's ploy to attract investors in buying its secondary offering of it's stock.
MO: Hire a well known tech visionary/inventor, pay him Google stock and/or proceeds from the stock sale, use profit of stock sale to buy potential tech startups.
Outcome: Lemming's Effect - a human psychological need to blindly follow other lemmings wherever they go.

GL

[ddesy]

Oh please.....

As much as I dislike big business, it isn't just a "ploy" every time someone like this is hired at one. Google hasn't proven to be a bad company so far (aside from the legally questionable hiring of a former Microsoft executive), and I cannot see much reason to suspect they are from this.

[ebrandel]

One of the Greatest Names?

Does this guy have one of the greatest names in the tech industry? "Vint Cerf" ... I think he does.