[...] http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/27/spyw-update-is-google-back-pedaling-ahead-of-company-all-hands/ [...]

[...] some indication that Google has heard the cries of outrage, and has already started scaling back social search results, as PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy [...]

[...] some indication that Google has heard the cries of outrage, and has already started scaling back social search results, as PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy [...]

[...] some indication that Google has heard the cries of outrage, and has already started scaling back social search results, as PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy [...]

[...] some indication that Google has heard the cries of outrage, and has already started scaling back social search results, as PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy [...]

[...] some indication that Google has heard the cries of outrage, and has already started scaling back social search results, as PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy [...]

[...] SPYW Update: Is Google Back-Pedaling Ahead of Company All-Hands? (pandodaily.com) Share this:StumbleUponDiggRedditPrintTwitterTumblrFacebookLinkedInEmailLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. [...]

This is just normal evolution for Google products. They always evolve, adapt and change their product quickly according to user feed back once they are in the public domain, Chrome and Android being the exception to the rule. I expect that a feature as radical as SPYW will require a lot of tweaking over the coming months and years and it evolution is very much dependent on the evolution of Google+ and on whether Facebook and Twitter will ever open up their data to Google or other social networks in the future.

[...] some indication that Google has heard the cries of outrage, and has already started scaling back social search results, as PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy [...]

[...] some indication that Google has heard the cries of outrage, and has already started scaling back social search results, as PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy [...]

[...] some indication that Google has heard the cries of outrage, and has already started scaling back social search results, as PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy [...]

[...] some indication that Google has heard the cries of outrage, and has already started scaling back social search results, as PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy [...]

[...] some indication that Google has heard the cries of outrage, and has already started scaling back social search results, as PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy [...]

[...] some indication that Google has heard the cries of outrage, and has already started scaling back social search results, as PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy [...]

So what did you hear from the TGIF meeting?

This site is worse than a tabloid. First, the totally false claim that Larry said if you don't like SPYW, find another job (I was at that TGIF, he never said it) And now this. There was no company wide email sent out by Amit discussing this. Is that what it takes to get published on Pando? Send random false information to your tips line claiming to be from inside Google with no evidence? If this was the UK, you'd probably be sued. Google has TGIF's every friday. They are a lighthearted, social atmosphere, where people present demos or visions of upcoming stuff, and take questions for the execs. They don't threaten people's jobs, and they don't discuss negative reactionary stuff. When Google wants to discuss serious company policy changes that are the result of external factors, they handle it in an all-hands meeting, and those don't happen on Fridays.

I think it's all about Google taking ownership of a stream, but it's too late. That's why they haven't enabled tweeting or RSS feeds of posts from G+. Playing it through, it seems logical that they have to buy Twitter ... https://plus.google.com/115714788299598528960/posts/FiB629GJn46 My 2c, Rod

Good article on HBR - expresses my concern and those of many w/o emotion. Agree with author, this will backfire for Google. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/what_larry_page_doesnt_underst.html

Honestly, I feel that you are blowing this issue out of proportion. And regarding TGIF... Having attended several in the past, IMHO this TGIF will be like any other for Larry and crew. I don't think sweating over this issue as much as you. There are more important things to cover than SPYW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i07mVNAhy68

Reposting for visibility and hopefully an answer from Sarah. Good job on calling Google on “promises they made in 2005″, i.e, 7 years ago, but … what about the promise you made 2 *weeks* ago ? “We have one goal here at PandoDaily: To be the site-of-record for that startup root-system and everything that springs up from it, cycle-after-cycle”. It seems that every other story on this site is about that up and coming startup called Google.

Everytime I see "SPYW" my mind automatically reads Spyware. Hmmm.

Get the pitchforks ready! :@

It's interesting. I agree that SPYW could be a good product, and I don't think adding Google+ to results is a horrible thing. However, I do prefer them doing this more sparingly.

dog with a bone... not exactly start-up material.. great reporting.. love the site!