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Perks defined Google for years, and defined most Silicon Valley culture as well. Microsoft has been famous for its perks since the early 90s, in fact. So when a number of posts, sparked by a NYT article (now nearly two months old) claim that the era of perks is over at Google, it prompts musings such as this one in ComputerWorld, claiming Google has lost its mojo.

I’m not sure that’s true, at least not yet. Perhaps amongst IT managers, that’s true (ComputerWorld being an IT publication, after all), but I am not sure IT managers ever had more than a passing interest in Google’s “mojo” to begin with.

The piece is entirely anecdotal, so the conclusion must be as well. For now, the jury is out.

Perks defined Google for years, and defined most Silicon Valley culture as well. Microsoft has been famous for its perks since the early 90s, in fact. So when a number of posts, sparked by a NYT article (now nearly two months old) claim that the era of perks is over at Google, it prompts musings such as this one in ComputerWorld, claiming Google has lost its mojo.

I’m not sure that’s true, at least not yet. Perhaps amongst IT managers, that’s true (ComputerWorld being an IT publication, after all), but I am not sure IT managers ever had more than a passing interest in Google’s “mojo” to begin with.

The piece is entirely anecdotal, so the conclusion must be as well. For now, the jury is out.

Perks defined Google for years, and defined most Silicon Valley culture as well. Microsoft has been famous for its perks since the early 90s, in fact. So when a number of posts, sparked by a NYT article (now nearly two months old) claim that the era of perks is over at Google, it prompts musings such as this one in ComputerWorld, claiming Google has lost its mojo.

I’m not sure that’s true, at least not yet. Perhaps amongst IT managers, that’s true (ComputerWorld being an IT publication, after all), but I am not sure IT managers ever had more than a passing interest in Google’s “mojo” to begin with.

The piece is entirely anecdotal, so the conclusion must be as well. For now, the jury is out.

Perks defined Google for years, and defined most Silicon Valley culture as well. Microsoft has been famous for its perks since the early 90s, in fact. So when a number of posts, sparked by a NYT article (now nearly two months old) claim that the era of perks is over at Google, it prompts musings such as this one in ComputerWorld, claiming Google has lost its mojo.

I’m not sure that’s true, at least not yet. Perhaps amongst IT managers, that’s true (ComputerWorld being an IT publication, after all), but I am not sure IT managers ever had more than a passing interest in Google’s “mojo” to begin with.

The piece is entirely anecdotal, so the conclusion must be as well. For now, the jury is out.

Perks defined Google for years, and defined most Silicon Valley culture as well. Microsoft has been famous for its perks since the early 90s, in fact. So when a number of posts, sparked by a NYT article (now nearly two months old) claim that the era of perks is over at Google, it prompts musings such as this one in ComputerWorld, claiming Google has lost its mojo.

I’m not sure that’s true, at least not yet. Perhaps amongst IT managers, that’s true (ComputerWorld being an IT publication, after all), but I am not sure IT managers ever had more than a passing interest in Google’s “mojo” to begin with.

The piece is entirely anecdotal, so the conclusion must be as well. For now, the jury is out.

Perks defined Google for years, and defined most Silicon Valley culture as well. Microsoft has been famous for its perks since the early 90s, in fact. So when a number of posts, sparked by a NYT article (now nearly two months old) claim that the era of perks is over at Google, it prompts musings such as this one in ComputerWorld, claiming Google has lost its mojo.

I’m not sure that’s true, at least not yet. Perhaps amongst IT managers, that’s true (ComputerWorld being an IT publication, after all), but I am not sure IT managers ever had more than a passing interest in Google’s “mojo” to begin with.

The piece is entirely anecdotal, so the conclusion must be as well. For now, the jury is out.

Perks defined Google for years, and defined most Silicon Valley culture as well. Microsoft has been famous for its perks since the early 90s, in fact. So when a number of posts, sparked by a NYT article (now nearly two months old) claim that the era of perks is over at Google, it prompts musings such as this one in ComputerWorld, claiming Google has lost its mojo.

I’m not sure that’s true, at least not yet. Perhaps amongst IT managers, that’s true (ComputerWorld being an IT publication, after all), but I am not sure IT managers ever had more than a passing interest in Google’s “mojo” to begin with.

The piece is entirely anecdotal, so the conclusion must be as well. For now, the jury is out.

Perks defined Google for years, and defined most Silicon Valley culture as well. Microsoft has been famous for its perks since the early 90s, in fact. So when a number of posts, sparked by a NYT article (now nearly two months old) claim that the era of perks is over at Google, it prompts musings such as this one in ComputerWorld, claiming Google has lost its mojo.

I'm not sure that's true, at least not yet. Perhaps amongst IT managers, that's true (ComputerWorld being an IT publication, after all), but I am not sure IT managers ever had more than a passing interest in Google's "mojo" to begin with.

The piece is entirely anecdotal, so the conclusion must be as well. For now, the jury is out.

During the recent Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose, I was privileged to interview the grandfather of the search marketing industry Danny Sullivan at the WebmasterRadio.FM booth. It was an amazing interview which ranged from Danny’s earliest days starting the Search Engine Watch journal and the SES conference series to his new ventures, the Search Marketing Expo conferences and the Search Engine Land journal.

Unfortunately, something happened between the microphones and the mixing board. While the engineer says the interview sounded fine in his headphones, the recording is garbled in places with a terrible digital echo over-shadowing our voices from time to time. That is too bad as I felt it was one of the best interviews I have ever done and certainly one I am most proud of.

At any rate, here is a link to the interview. The sound gets flakey about five minutes in but astute listeners can make out most of the words. I am working on getting a transcription to post at a later date.

Danny Sullivan interviewed by Jim Hedger at SES San Jose 2008