Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Shafted
What happens when your engineering team is shafted by the President? Google is finding out. President Trump announced nationally that Google's subsidiary, Verily, had built a web site through which COVID-19 patients could find out where to get tested. There is only one problem. There is no public web site -- not yet anyway -- and the small test site that Verily was shaking down was quickly overwhelmed by concerned citizens. Fortunately for Google, the bad PR from this cock-up was quickly focused on the President rather than on Google. It was a typical shoot-from-the-lip Trump announcement -- unchecked, gratuitous, designed to look like he was in control. It was a sadly typical outcome -- a disaster. One wonders when President Trump will learn to check facts before speaking. It might be too late for him in this election year.
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