Search In Pictures: Yahoo’s Party, Google Slackers & Purple Power

By Barry Schwartz

Published: December 12, 2008 at 11:39 am

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.

Yahoo’s Year End Party (kind of sad, knowing the layoffs):

A Googler Slacking Off?:

Google’s Coffee Shop?:

Yahoo Bike Building Team:

Google Web Cam (cool):

Yahoo Mexico got Purple Power?:

This is a funny Google thing, it is found in your Google Profile::

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About the author

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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