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ot on Dec 25, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Writing Your Own Search Engine Is Hard

From another article in the home page today (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/12/24/ex.google.employe...):

  But abandoning Google hasn't always proved to be a wise or
  permanent move. Anna Patterson left the company in 2007 to
  start a rival search engine called Cuil. When that tanked, she
  returned to Google in September.

puredemo on Dec 25, 2010 [–]

... I can't believe they hired her back.

korussian on Dec 25, 2010 | [–]

Why wouldn't they? She proved she's awesome at difficult stuff. Ultimate failure didn't unprove that.

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