Google Checkout Googler Benjamin Ling Checkouts To Facebook

By Danny Sullivan

Published: October 10, 2007 at 10:34 pm

Back in June, Justin Rosenstein — a Google product manager — generated some
buzz when he left for Facebook with an email calling it "The Google Of
Yesterday." Today, news that another Googler has gone over, this time Google
Checkout product manager Benjamin Ling.

Netly News
has more
details, and the story also notes YouTube’s former CFO left to work at
Facebook back in August. I hadn’t caught that departure.

For more background on Rosenstein’s leaving, see our past post
Top Google Engineer &
Product Manager Leave Google, as well as an exit interview with him that
Inside Facebook

ran. See also related discussion
starting on Techmeme
about Ling’s leaving.

Postscript: From Google to Facebook from Google Operating System covers how a fourth Googler, Pedram Keyani from Orkut, left for Facebook in July.

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Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.