Google > Facebook Migration Continues

October 11th, 2007

The Netly News reports tonight that Google Director of Product Management (eCommerce) and Stanford CS PhD Benjamin Ling is leaving Google to “head up the Facebook Platform”.

Ling is among at least several senior engineers known to have departed Google for Facebook in recent months. In July, former Google Product Manager Justin Rosenstein was outspoken about the prospects of making the move to Facebook.

Facebook is known to offer generous options packages to lure top engineering talent. With Google’s strong share price recently, it wouldn’t be surprising to see more make the jump in the coming months.

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5 Responses to “Google > Facebook Migration Continues”

Matt Says:
October 12th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Congrats, Ben! He did a great job on Google Checkout, and it will be fun to see what comes out of the Facebook platform with him at the helm.
Michael Says:
October 15th, 2007 at 6:42 am
This is the start of something beautiful. I can see it now:
1) Employees of Google run over to Facebook.
2) Facebook applications quickly outnumber Google’s (they already do).
3) Better ad targeting on Facebook starts drawing more advertisers.
4) Users begin to make money on their profile through a rev-share model by allowing advertisers to post ads.
5) Applications with user-profile relevant content begin to appear.
6) More users navigate to Facebook away from Google for targeted information relevant to all their needs.
7) Google stock flat-lines as Facebook stock continues to skyrocket at record rates due to the bidding war between Google and Microsoft.
Eventually people realize the potential of Facebook over Google and the tide turns.
9) Facebook buys Google
10) Applications start showing up for word processing, calender generation, smartphone/ipod syncing, advanced photo/music editing, various advanced browser integrations, and allows for 80 gigs of online storage.
11) As FOOS (Facebook Online Operating System) grows, Microsoft feels the threat upping it’s bid to $100 billion-trillion-gazillion (I realize it’s not a real number).
12) Facebook remains private and over takes Microsoft in popularity.
13) Facebook buys Microsoft
14) Mobile phones finally catch up to the capabilities of today’s modern computers and Facebook mobile is perfected.
15) Facebook changes it’s name to FaceBoogleSoft.
16) A new era of controlled, personalized, user generated content, user targeted ads, and fast web programming for an online operating system becomes an unstoppable ultimate force.
Inderjeet Says:
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:52 pm
“With Google’s strong “share price” recently, it wouldn’t be surprising to see more make the jump in the coming months.” are u talking about stock prices of google.this line is making me confused.
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December 18th, 2007 at 12:02 am
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Ayush Saran Says:
January 11th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
@Inderjeet: they are exercising their stock options, cashing in… and leaving