London, Oct 13 (ANI): A Google engineer has caused an online stir by posting a long rant slamming the company's new social network as a "pathetic afterthought".
Steve Yegge, a Google software engineer, accidentally posted a diatribe publicly instead of privately on Google+.
"That one last thing that Google doesn't do well is platforms. We don't understand platforms. We don't 'get' platforms," Yegge wrote.
Saying that the failure to understand platforms starts at the top of Google's chain of command, Yegge specifically called out CEO Larry Page, co-founder Sergey Brin and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
"Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo)," he wrote.
Yegge wrote that the Google+ platform is a "pathetic afterthought" and Google lacked an application programming interface, which allows other web apps to interact with yours.
He added that Google's biggest blunder is that it didn't emulate Facebook's plan of building "an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work."
Yegge, however, took down the post and added a new one, saying his first rant wasn't meant to go out publicly.
"Sadly, it was intended to be an internal post, visible to everybody at Google, but not externally. But as it was midnight and I am not what you might call an experienced Google+ user," he wrote. (ANI)
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