Xooglers

I finally got around to putting up the final bit of video I shot shortly after I started at Google in 1999. Watching it, you'll get a feel for the unstructured nature of our weekly all-staff TGIF meetings back when the company had fewer than 60 employees...

I ran into an administrator for the Knight Fellows program tonight at a book signing party for Steven Levy. We shared notes about the parallels between journalists and engineers and it reminded me that I had once put together this handy comparison chart...

I got together with a group of Xooglers recently and heard a story that was new to me. I found it pretty amusing.
At one point Google was refining its porn filter and and came up with a list of terms that gave a strong indication that a web page contained sexually explicit material. If these words appeared in any combination, the page was likely full of adult content...

I'm about halfway through Steven Levy's excellent book on Google, "In the Plex," and enjoying it very much. He obviously did his homework and he drills down into topics I skipped in IFL, like the sunsetting of our premium ads system and the development...