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Evan Williams Posts Official Google Blog
Luis F. Escalante writes "Evan, creator of Blogger, owned by Google, finally convinced Larry, Sergey and Co. to start up a blog. According to Evan's first post, we'll soon be able to know "What Larry had for breakfast. What Sergey thinks of that Hellboy movie. Which Dawson's Creek character reminds us most of Eric.""
For those in the dark, see here.
Really good movie, shame it didn't do very well at the box office. Oh well, good satires almost never do, people don't get satire. *sigh*
Seriously. It's rare to see a blog without the word "blog" on the page somewhere. Works pretty well.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
i will grant that it's not that cheap, but i insist that it remains nasty as shit.
Thanks for the advice. Stagnated companies are always great.
Life in Orange County
You should check out blogs.msdn.com if your interested in stuff like this.
Especially interesting is Chris Pratley's web log. He's got some great posts on the history of Word, the Open Source movement and other fun stuff.
Insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google.
Monday, May 10, 2004
Going out of our way to find the right people.
When we announced the opening of our engineering office in Zurich, a lot of Europeans seemed pleased about the possibility of working for Google without a commute to California. Zurich draws Italians, French, Swiss, Germans, and other Europeans, and is easier to reach from most parts of the continent than the Amphitheatre Parkway exit off highway 101.
Interestingly, when we announced our engineering center in Bangalore, we found ourselves knee-deep in the debate about "outsourcing" -- the practice of cutting a company's American operations in favor of cheaper labor elsewhere. India in particular has been a subject of a lot of press coverage on this topic lately, which we find to be pretty unfair. It's not their fault they have a lot of brilliant computer scientists who don't care to relocate to the States.
We recognize that talented engineers live in every time zone, not just Silicon Valley. That's fine with us, because when it comes to solving technical problems Google benefits from global perspectives, as well as a diversity of languages and working hours. We're not shipping jobs overseas, we're accommodating people we want to hire who don't feel like uprooting their lives, even for Charlie's cooking.
So, if you're looking for a place to plug into Google, we're trying to make it easy for you. We're looking for talented software engineers, top programmers and visionary computer scientists to tackle everything from distributed systems and information retrieval to algorithms, UI, and scalability challenges. And of course to unplug the lava lamps occasionally so they don't overheat.
So, whether you're in the market for a challenging engineering position in Mountain View or our new Tokyo office, or somewhere really out of this world, we hope you'll look us up.
Posted @ 3:30 PM / Permanent Link
Parent is a IBYAB post.
As in I'd Buy You A Beer post. Feel free to use this acronym when you come across a post that you totally agree with or sympathise with and you can't think of anything else to say except 'Man, if you were in my area I'd buy you a beer'.
Remember folks, IBYAB!
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Here's the story with the blogger redirects Hint: they prevent comment spam and promote PageRank fairness.