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Google to Employees: No Christmas Bonus, Here's a G1 Instead
gizmodo.com - 12/22/2008
Google to Employees: No Christmas Bonus, Here's a G1 Instead
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In holidays past, when money flowed like hot Santa tears and melted gum drops , Googlers looked forward to cash bonuses that topped $20,000. This year, they're getting $180 worth of "dogfood" a G1. Updated 1:05PM Yep, they're all getting G1s even Google, who prints money as a hobby, is ...

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Google Hands Out 'Dogfood' as Christmas Bonus [Googlefreude]
valleywag.gawker.com - 12/22/2008
Google Hands Out 'Dogfood' as Christmas Bonus [Googlefreude]
— valleywag.gawker.com — Groans are issuing from the Googleplex over this year's holiday bonus. In the past, the search engine paid cash — as much as $20,000 or $30,000 per Googler, we hear. This year? A cell phone.... (more) Google Hands Out 'Dogfood' as Christmas Bonus [Googlefreude]

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googleblog.blogspot.com - 12/19/2008
Official Google Blog: New search-by-style options for Google Image Search
— googleblog.blogspot.com — Many of us use Google Image Search to find imagery of people, clip art for presentations, diagrams for reports, and of course symbols and patterns for artistic inspiration. Unfortunately, searching for the perfect image can be challenging if the ... (more) Official Google Blog: New search-by-style options for ...

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Google to Employees: No Christmas Bonus, Here's a G1 Instead [Screwged]
gizmodo.com - 12/22/2008
Google to Employees: No Christmas Bonus, Here's a G1 Instead [Screwged]
— gizmodo.com — In holidays past, when money flowed like hot Santa tears and melted gum drops , Googlers looked forward to cash bonuses that topped $20,000. This year, they're getting $180 worth of "dogfood" —a G1. Updated 1:05PM Yep, they're all getting ... (more) Google to Employees: No Christmas Bonus, Here's a G1 ...

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Santa skipping over Google employees’ chimneys this year
Boy Genius Report — The lavish and sometimes frivolous mega-Internet-corp that is Google has been feeling the effects of the recession this year. First it started with the dismissal of a good chunk of manpower and now it is being reported that Google employees won’t be receiving Christmas bonuses this year. That’s a pretty major downer if you’re one of the employees who received a bonus as high as $20,000 in the past (though if that’s your bonus, you’re probably faring better than most anyway). How is Google making up for it? Free, unlocked G1s ...

Google Gives Employees G1s... to Make Way For G2s?
Google Watch — ... with custom Android logos being doled out to 85 percent of Googlers in lieu of a cash bonus for Christmas. That's some 18,000-plus Android-based smart phones if Google truly has over 20,000 employees still on its active list. Holy handsets! Employees in countries where Google couldn't make this happen for legal reasons will get cash instead. Taking into account that not all Googlers will be T-Mobile customers, the phone is unlocked so it can work with any provider. Read the Q&A; from Google on Gizmodo and this memo on ValleyWag for complete details. Google ...

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