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title: "On Google and constraints: DHH agrees (concisely)"
date: 2006-02-15T19:13:37Z
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I just got a trackback from from [David Heinemeier Hannson](http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/how_constrained_is_google_really.php). I love blogs.



Not surprisingly his take is somewhat more concise than mine…

> Google would surely be one of the last companies I would ever file under “big in constraints”. The company hires ten times the size of 37signals _every week_. They chase a thousand science projects while collecting a billion dollars per quarter in revenue.
> 
> No harm in that, naturally. Google is great at what it does: Solving really hard problems by throwing more ph.d’s, money, servers, and resources at it than most small countries have at their disposal. In effect, they’re a celebrating the triumph of an abundance of resources: Making all information searching for the whole world.
> 
> But champions of constraint now? Hmmm.

I still have a blog in the hopper from last week’s Carson show about David’s speech. He is a lot more combative than I expected, which is goodness… more on that later.