Briefly seen on Google Blog:
Interestingly, when we announced our engineering center in Bangalore, we found ourselves knee-deep in the debate about “outsourcing” — the practice of cutting a company’s American operations in favor of cheaper labor elsewhere. India in particular has been a subject of a lot of press coverage on this topic lately, which we find to be pretty unfair. It’s not their fault they have a lot of brilliant computer scientists who don’t care to relocate to the States.
The paragraph has since been deleted without explanation.
This kind of revisionist history is unacceptable, regardless of who does it. If you don’t want it saved for all time, don’t publish it on the Internet. Putting blog
on the top of the page does not absolve you of all responsibility.
If Google is unable to hold themselves accountable, others will surely do it for them.
Via Slashdot, MetaFilter, and Hello TypePad.
Michael Hanscom has a screenshot of the changes, as rendered by NetNewsWire’s excellent HTML Differences
feature.
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