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Ten Years Later, A Third Google "Founder" Comes Out Of The Woodwork

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Sorry, this story is utter shit. Having worked in academia I know there's not a single grad student who don't want their name on _ANY_ paper.

also it sounds strange that he sais if they put his name on a paper it would be a commitment to finish the Google project...

It sounds strange but maybe what he means is that they may have asked him to commit in order to put his name on the paper?

So, assuming he rejected their offer, he has no right to claim anything.

Author admits that he hasn't heard back from any party involved. TC has a very high standard for investigative reporting...

Why miss such a good opportunity for traffic?

"BREAKING NEWS!!! Ten Years Later, A "Third" Google Founder Comes Out Of The Woodwork. Don't miss the touching story of the hero who helped fund Google then never got proper recognition!

(later...)

BREAKING NEWS!!! "Third" Google "Founder" EXPOSED as a HOAX! Read all about the impostor who spurred lots of SHOCKING controversy earlier this week!"

If he and Google's founders were friends, why didn't he stay in touch with them throughout the formation of their company? Why suddenly contact them ten years later?

In any case, it seems he just wasn't willing to take the risk and so can hardly be called "founder" ...

I hope we can all come together in ignoring this guy. This really deserves no attention whatsoever. If he manages to stir enough controsversy he might get paid in a settlement and that'd be really sad.

He sounds like the crazy man who interrupted the 2004 olympic marathon because he claimed the world was ending.

has nothing to do with this what are you talking about

Sorry, but if you were really so instrumental in creating Google and didn't get any credit for it then you did something wrong, whether it was abandoning the somewhat risky startup life to pursue the less risky PhD, or whatever.

PhD is not less risky, it is just perceived this way by PhD students since they have too much contact with tenured professors.

Wasn't Google originally called "BackRub" and didn't the idea for ad-words which this guy is claiming to have helped them hash out not come along until after the search engine was a success?

Maybe TC should first get the whole story then post stuff like this instead of just giving possible hoaxes media space.

how is it posssible to not say anything for 10 years and suddenly out of nowhere come with the news. well there should be some sort of proof he can show....Its sad..but if you left...hey if you don't jump in a train sometimes it will leave you behind....

techcrunch just did this to get more hits and visits to their website. suckersssssssss

Sounds batty. A PhD student didn't want his name on a paper? Lost emails? Discursions about family educational dreams?

What were Hubert Chang's other papers? What was his PhD thesis about?

His Ph.D. thesis is in http://www.cs.nyu.edu/web/Research/Theses/hung-hsien_chang.p...

Hung-Hsien, Chang Enriched Content: Concept, Architecture, Implementation, and Applications

I went to the NYU CS Grad at the same time with him. I never heard this story from him.

their should be a statute of limitation on this sort of thing.

"Tough titty said the kitty". :-)

If this individual elected to pursue his PhD work instead of carrying on with google, then he hasn't a right to complain that he is not getting the "recognition" he feels he deserved.

Youtube had a third founder who pursued his PHD as well instead of being involved in the daily activities. Apparently he was still a consultant of some sort. But at the end he cashed in a few millions when the company was acquired.

This is when I really wish there was a downvote for threads.

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