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Google.org to Spend an Initial $1.1 Billion

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-spend-it-all-in-one-place dept.

conq writes "Google.org, the charitable branch of Google, has hired on Dr. Larry Brilliant to create a strategy for making a 'social impact.' According to the article: 'The network will focus its charitable endeavors on global poverty, energy, and the environment.' Brilliant outlines his goal: 'In 10 years, I'd like people to say Google changed the world less for its search engine than for the way in which it changed philanthropy to make the world a better place.'"

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  1. Lets Get It Over With... by duerra · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, so this can be the designated thread for you to file all your BRILLIANT jokes under.

    Yes, yes... I know - I made a pun! I'm just too much for myself sometimes. *insert seal yelps here*.

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    1. Re:Lets Get It Over With... by mooingyak · · Score: 3, Funny

      His wife... she's fucking Brilliant!

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  2. Google involved in charity? by Viv · · Score: 3, Funny

    Brilliant!

  3. Larry Brilliant by pajeromanco · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would rather hire Joe Modest.

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  4. Re:charity by jonoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    donated billions $$ along with his wife

    Would anyone care to donate their wife to me? Just one night...

  5. Re:Yeah by JTorres176 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ha, turn down google's job, laugh in their faces!
    You'd be better off going to Microsoft anyway! Wait, they modified their search engine and OS for China.
    Wait, go for Yahoo! That'd be a kick in the... nevermind, they did the same.
    Oooooh! Go work for IBM, that would... wait, nope, they assist China with hardware and OS's with the Guangdong Initiative....
    I know, Go to work for Dell because they... nevermind, they assisted with the Guangdong Initiative too.

    Go to work at a mom and pop convenience store and slowly starve to death living in your mom's basement making minimum wage while Google continues to rake in billions!

    That'll show google who's boss! Yeah!

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  6. Not only that... by JourneyExpertApe · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...his wife if fucking Brilliant, too.

    Sorry.

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