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Google is famous for all things it is doing. Now another category was added by google. They just won the "most famous layoff" award, not given by the oscar jury but the blogsphere.

I must admit that writing that way about google in a blog everyone can read is a little bit naive. Especially giving the fact that google is ultra-sensitive about its business communication. They created the we-have-the-smartest-people-on-the-world-and-all-others-just-suck image and they fight for keeping it this way. Of course everyone assumes that he was in fact fired for his blog, the story would be totally different if there were even more reasons.

I can understand why google canned this guy, but in the same way the blog backfired to him, this story will backfire to google. This is definitely a PR desaster and i dont know if google can keep on saying: "hey we are the place where everything is cool".