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Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead

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581 points antr | 1 comments | 16 Aug 13 12:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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tokenizer ◴[16 Aug 13 12:34 UTC] No.6223568[source]▶
I curious if they did any cost benefit analysis in regards to declines in hiring quality when they removed such a feature.
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1. brunov ◴[16 Aug 13 13:10 UTC] No.6223744[source]▶
I'm positively sure that they did. The sad thing is that they still thought that it was worth doing. To me, that says a lot about where Google's priorities are today.