Google is slowing down

Tim Burrowes

March 14, 2009 1:40

It’s a fact of being a large company – you can’t run in every direction your employees might want to go. The company is big, and despite all of its efforts, it’s getting slow. It has to, in order to protect that which brought it to greatness.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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