Eric Schmidt Out, Larry Page In As Google CEO

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Eric Schmidt Out, Larry Page In As Google CEO 185

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 20, 2011 @06:45PM from the as-if-you-care dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Google surprised just about everybody at its earnings call by announcing that Eric Schmidt, who had served as company CEO for more than a decade, would be stepping down and that cofounder Larry Page would take over. Schmidt will stay on as chairman and provide 'technology thought leadership,' whatever that is. When Schmidt, an old Sun hand, joined Google in 2001, it was seen as a move to turn the scrappy upstart into a mature company; now on his Twitter feed Schmidt proclaims that his 'adult supervision' is no longer needed."

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Well, I guess we can say... (Score:5, Funny)

by teh31337one ( 1590023 ) writes: on Thursday January 20, 2011 @06:46PM (#34945902)

Schmidt Happens

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Re:Freaked out for a second (Score:5, Funny)

by spun ( 1352 ) writes: <loverevolutionary@@@yahoo...com> on Thursday January 20, 2011 @06:52PM (#34945998) Journal

I briefly confused Larry Page with Larry Ellison. Whew. That would be terrible.
How could you confuse a rock and roll guitar legend with a diminutive, bombastic sci-fi writer?

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Re:First Jobs, now Schmidt (Score:5, Funny)

by MrEricSir ( 398214 ) writes: on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:00PM (#34946120) Homepage

I think they should keep Ballmer for the entertainment value.

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Re:Freaked out for a second (Score:5, Funny)

by spun ( 1352 ) writes: <loverevolutionary@@@yahoo...com> on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:02PM (#34946148) Journal

I did as well. Do no evil, Larry Ellison edition...
You misspelled know.

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Re:Freaked out for a second (Score:5, Funny)

by Locke2005 ( 849178 ) writes: on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:03PM (#34946160)

Jagger is the darker-skinned one with the wider nose.

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Re:Freaked out for a second (Score:5, Funny)

by Lemmy Caution ( 8378 ) writes: on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:04PM (#34946176) Homepage

Thank you for the briefing, Ambassador Obvious of the Planet Literal.

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In other news (Score:5, Funny)

by should_be_linear ( 779431 ) writes: on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:05PM (#34946182)

Hours after suspension of adult supervision, new CEO Larry Page gave Android Platform to Apple in exchange for remote controlled car and a two video games.

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Re:Freaked out for a second (Score:5, Funny)

by nathana ( 2525 ) * writes: on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:08PM (#34946210)

I did as well. Do no evil, Larry Ellison edition...
You misspelled know.
You misspelled "now."

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Re:Not unforeseen (Score:2, Funny)

by Red Flayer ( 890720 ) writes: on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:19PM (#34946332) Journal

I haven't heard anything to make me automatically suspicious of him.
How about, "I work for Google, where your private information is our business."

I mean, he didn't say it... but he didn't have to. It goes without saying.

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Re:First Jobs, now Schmidt (Score:5, Funny)

by exomondo ( 1725132 ) writes: on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:29PM (#34946438)

while(1){ printf("developers "); }

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Re:Freaked out for a second (Score:5, Funny)

by camperslo ( 704715 ) writes: on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:35PM (#34946496)

Will an analysis of the swap reveal Page faults?

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Re:Beginning of the end? (Score:5, Funny)

by Red Flayer ( 890720 ) writes: on Thursday January 20, 2011 @07:45PM (#34946614) Journal

Offtopic, I know, but re: your sig:
There aint no pancake so thin it doesn't have two sides.
Obviously you have not had the pleasure of eating a Möbius pancake. Once you can figure out where the butter and syrup go, they are delicious.

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Re:In other news (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday January 20, 2011 @08:56PM (#34947204)

In his defense it was a really cool remote controlled iCar.

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Re:Well, I guess we can say... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday January 20, 2011 @09:18PM (#34947400)

Maybe if it is, they'll make one of 4chan
The Antisocial Network.

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