[Nydhal]

I'm not sure if this is good or bad news. I wonder what google motives are and how they will influence kaggle if this becomes reality.

[sonabinu]

Hate to think that some of the beauty of Kaggle being independent will be lost but that's likely

[seangrogg]

As with many of Google's hires chances are they see it less about acquiring a "product" and more about getting access to what that product produces - an extremely large number of leads in a high-demand space that they're currently trying to ramp up themselves.

[leblancfg]

Interesting, though, as they never needed to own that platform to mine it for hiring leads.