Facebook Poaches Google

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a significant step towards monetizing his company yesterday with the hire of Sheryl Sandberg, Google’s vice president of global online sales and operations. Sandberg will become chief operating officer at everyone’s favorite social network.

Sandberg, who joined Google three years before it went public and turned the company’s Adsense and Adwords into the multi-billion dollar business it is today, told The New York Times she sees similarities between a young Google and today’s Facebook.

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