Watching people fighting online is part of covering search topics via discussion forums. The only thing is, I rarely see Googlers fighting amongst Googlers or even ex-Googlers.

A HackerNews thread links to a post by a newish Google manager who is loving his job at Google after working as a professor at Harvard for 8 years. It is a nice post to read but then a 6-month old Googler who is no longer at Google came in to ruin it.

He wrote:

After that, Googlers who are currently at Google go after Michael O. Church (the one who posted that about) for saying bad things about Google. Here is the first Google’s response:

What is interesting through this process is not only the fighting but learning about how Googlers rate other Googlers.

Of course, this goes on and on.

Heck, even Google’s Matt Cutts gets involved and says, “Michael, you’re complaining about rude attacks the day after you wrote Choke on a fucking taint, Google. Choke. On. A. Taint.”

Seems like Michael was a special person at Google for the short time he was there.

Forum discussion at HackerNews.