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Google CEO Talks Business

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the where-the-money-is dept.

prostoalex writes "InformationWeek interviews Google CEO on Google's enterprise strategy. No cool products announcements or anything related to personal technology - Eric Schmidt talks about Google's offerings for the enterprise market."

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  1. UW talk by Mtn_Dewd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Eric Schmidt is really busy on showing just how progressive Google is right now. I just got out of a talk at University of Washington by him in which he addressed many interesting Google policy questions ranging from responsibilities, censorship, and corporate structure. They're really trying to establish that they aren't just another fad and are trying to find a way to meet the demands of an exponentially increasing task of information aggregation and retrieval.

    Interestingly, in our Computer Science department at UW, there is definitely an aura about Google. Everyone wants to work for them. They seem to defy all of the standard business models that we have grown to hate (ie: Office Space) and use a 70%, 20%, 10% rule that allows you to work on Google-related work, Personal-project-google-related work, and just personal work. I won't drag on about their structure, but I'm wondering if their business model and ideas will now spread into the mainstream corporate world.

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    1. Re:UW talk by zerbot · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Hah, that's funny. When I went to the UW we had a "heterogenous environment" meaning we had systems from a number of different vendors. We were told it was so that students would be exposed to a wide variety of stuff they might work with in the outside world. Shortly after I graduated, Bill Gates donated a bunch of money to the UW, and all of a sudden they're ripping everything out and putting all Windoze boxes in, saying the new "homogenous environment" will be more consistent and less confusing for students. The students started developing a serious Microsoft-worship complex, everybody wanted to work there.

      Must be galling to Bill that the students at "his" bought and paid for university now have Google-stars in their eyes.

    2. Re:UW talk by Anonymous+Luddite · · Score: 2, Interesting

      >> For employees at google, which time fraction would reading slashdot come under?

      With the number of google stories that get posted I think they're editing slashdot not reading it. I Like google as much as the next guy, use it daily... but ffs.

      Enough with the gooogle stories. Give me something refreshing and insightful. Perhaps a submission by that a Roland P. guy that everyone loves?

      just a thought...

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  2. Re:Wrong, but thanks for playing. by Spezzer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sure, open algorithms such as RSA are typically better because of their scrutiny by the the world's best cryptographers. However, a bunch of the NSA's algorithms are good BECAUSE they are secret (to their best of their ability). Yes, it probably won't hold the test of time as well, but that's not to say they don't work.

    I guess it's kind of analagous to 'security through obscurity.' Yeah, it's not the best way to do things, but it sometimes works well enough for some applications.

  3. Google turns Neocon with new Executive Hirings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I submitted a story that slashdot hasn't chosen to post. Recently, Google has started filling their new executive hirings with Neocons from the Bush Administration.

    Curiosly, there seems to be a lack of info on this in the American media and you need to go to foreign sources for the scoop.

    Here's The Register's article on it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/24/google_neo con

    So much for "Don't be evil."

    Google's newest executive that they hired was spotted jogging in Iraq wearing a Bush/Cheney '04 T-shirt, and is a key player from the Bush Administration. Is this an attempt by Google to get in good with the current US government, in a bid to get more enterprise Defense contracts?

  4. The product *I* want to see... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A Google GMail [TM] Appliance.

    Being stuck using *shudder* Outlook at work makes me wish we had GMail mailboxes at work.

    Even if I could invite everyone in the company to use GMail, I'm sure they don't want our company data in a server we don't even control. But if there were some GMail Appliance, not unlike their search appliance...

    Oh well, who am I kidding? It's probably in the works already... I just need to convince the boss higher ups that Outlook sucks ass (not hard...) and one of those would be much nicer whenever Google finally gets them out of beta...