Google's Internal Company Goals

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Google's Internal Company Goals

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 27, 2006 @01:51AM from the inside-the-mind-of-a-goog dept.

Rockgod writes to mention a Google Blogoscoped article about an internal company paper. The paper details Google's big goals and directions for 2006. From the article: "The list included several items, for example: Google wants to have an improved infrastructure to make their engineers more productive. This includes allowing employees to have a universal search tool "containing all public Google information searched on all Google searches." Google also wants to build 10MW of green power to be on track to be carbon neutral. (They also want to reduce "Borg disk waste" by 50%... hmmm, Borg?)

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borg by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-27 01:53 · Score: 2, Informative

i.e. cluster
old news by xTantrum · 2006-10-27 02:00 · Score: 2, Informative

move along nothing to see here. Not desparaging the submitter of the article but don't we by now know what google has acomplished and hasn't this year. Hit us up with 2007 and i'll mod you up...going once..going twice...

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Re:Don't you read Slashdot? by morgan_greywolf · 2006-10-27 02:28 · Score: 2, Informative

(They also want to reduce "Borg disk waste" by 50%... hmmm, Borg?)

Clearly "Borg disk waste" means "Microsoft disk waste". Google is moving to a less Microsoft-centric system. They clearly rely far too much on ASP.NET and SQL Server, and would like to become a LAMP shop. They may even be planning their own operating system to compete with Windows Vista.

Huh??? Google doesn't rely on ASP.NET or SQL Server. Google is the original LAMP shop.

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Re:Carbon Nuetral?...Google really is a good compa by sadr · 2006-10-27 02:54 · Score: 5, Informative

If you'd bothered to read their IPO or other documents, you'd know that common shareholders have nearly no control over the company due to the voting structure the owners set up.

They note that their policies may not maximize profit. Their policies are set based on doing what's right, as deemed by the founders.

Maybe you should sell your shares.
Re:Don't you read Slashdot? by didde · 2006-10-27 03:03 · Score: 3, Informative

Hmm, I really don't have a clue as to what platform Orkut is running on. Of course, the URL's on the site uses the ".aspx"-suffix but the returned server header says GFE:

# curl -I "https://www.orkut.com/"
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://www.orkut.com/GLogin.aspx?done=https%3A%2F %2Fwww.orkut.com%2F
Content-Length: 0
Cache-control: private
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:58:40 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Server: GFE/1.3

...perhaps this means they're load balancing or similar, but still.
Re:Carbon Nuetral?...Google really is a good compa by LauraW · 2006-10-27 07:02 · Score: 3, Informative

Here's the document I think he was referring to Original IPO Letter. Also, investor.google.com has various other stock- and IPO-related documents, I think.
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