[drakaal]

Keep telling your self that. Hackers rarely build things that scale to the size Google needs. A failure for Google has 10 Million signups the first day.

The Product managers are what count in building a new product. Hackers are rarely good product managers.

Academics are only a problem when they don't get user feed back before hand. A good researcher can build product that fits the needs of the users, and when paired with good UI people you get a winning product. Google isn't good at getting user feed back they work like Mathematicians, not like Anthropologists and Psychologists.

Math and Anthropology are still academics. But not in the same field.