Google's Internal Company Goals

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?)

The Googlesphere

[Brothernone]

Welcome to the Googlepshere... resistance is futile... but at least we dont have chairs.

Don't you read Slashdot?

[Randolpho]

(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.

"Borg disk waste"

[Rob T Firefly]

Borg waste is disks! Keep that in mind the next time one asks to use your bathroom. Those bastards'll clog up your plumbing with 9000 free hours of AOL.

Re:Don't you read Slashdot?

[DAldredge]

This isn't digg please don't make stuff up.

They meant something else

[lpangelrob]

No no no, they meant "bork waste". The Swedish chef translation [google.com] of their search engine is just taking up too much space. Bork bork bork!

Re:This is nice but...

[Rob T Firefly]

The key difference is that Google, like Paris, hasn't really earned most of the money they're sitting on

So... many... possible.. comebacks... *BOOM*

> Brain exploded, WISEASS.SYS corrupted.
> (A)bort/(R)etry/(F)ail?

Borg

[Creepy]

I'm sure that it's a reference to the Billgatus of Borg [ahajokes.com] or maybe the old joke [ozemail.com.au]

No chairs

[joshsnow]

Welcome to the Googlepshere... resistance is futile... but at least we dont have chairs.
And neither do we have Steve Ballmer to throw them...

Re:No chairs

[Anonymous Coward]

First time, I read it as "And neither do we have Steve Ballmer to throw at them"

Goals for 2007

[lazlo]

And their goals for 2007 include becoming uranium-neutral. Perhaps in 2008, they'll be helium-neutral.

By 2020, they hope to be matter-neutral.

I work at google

[Anonymous Coward]

Borg disk waste refers to the unfortunate results of an experiment creating autonomous software-based administrators. They had code to spread to different machines around the world (much like a trojan, but with good intentions). Unfortunately, they ended up doing this a little too well, and ended up archiving much more content than was originally intended... on servers across the world.

They use pagerank to determine what needs to be archived more/less, but the algo is too agressive... and the only way to communicate with them is on a one-by-one basis. Once you get one archiver killed on the machine, another is likely to be placed there by a different archiver.

Last march everything went wild and almost brought us down. They're nicknamed borg since they take over just about everything they touch. Since then we've created new bots to fight the archivers... the fight is predicted to continue well into next year.

(posting anon for obvious reasons)

Re:green power

[Wellington Grey]

and plants (where they do not risk safety obviously)

Yes safety first! I do so hate it when the office hydrangea goes on a rampage and kills the interns.

-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]

Re:Ping-pong tables

[LordOfTheNoobs]

Ping-pong tables
(Score:-1, Troll)
by tritonman (998572) on Friday October 27, @09:55AM (#16608330)
If they want to make the engineers more productive, they need to remove the ping-pong tables!

-1 troll on a comment that removing pingpong tables might increase productivity?

I guess google engineers get karma, too.