[vidoc]

That's pretty funny!

Reminds me when I worked for Yahoo couple of years ago, I was not even working for the search team, but one day I got busted by a product manager of that team who saw me googling. That chick sermonized me and said that engineers were people with great technical influence and if I wanted yahoo search to be successful, people around me had to see me use it. I tried to make the point that the path to success for a product is to make it better in the first place, but that didn't fly for her.

It was also pretty funny to see all those hypocrites use Yahoo Mail while on the campus only to switch back to Gmail in the company shuttle :)

I love capitalism!

[mgkimsal]

"engineers were people with great technical influence and if I wanted yahoo search to be successful, people around me had to see me use it."

Insane. If anything your time might be more valuable than someone else's, and if you can get your job done faster with google or bing, get the job done as efficiently as possible. Using Yahoo on campus, then using google off campus is even worse, because it gives the impression that it's solving your needs when it's clearly not.