March 5, 2006
Google – Teamwork for problem-solving
Now google wants top research scientists. Google has this post on its official google research blog.
Google Research is about teamwork with outstanding engineers to solve novel and challenging problems that have an impact. But it’s also about being at the forefront of scientific innovations. We’re an active part of the research community, and we like to interact with researchers and scientists in academia. We’re happy to serve as a hub for researchers to come and discuss their latest findings and get exposed to the large-scale problems and challenges that we face. Robert Tarjan, John Lafferty, and Brian Kernighan are among the professors that have spent time here.
We host world-renowned scientists spanning diverse areas including neuroscience, climatology, internet security and e-commerce — and of course, computer science. In the fall, our Research Seminars attracted such prominent figures as John Hopcroft and Michael Rabin. This spring we’re welcoming Christos Papadimitriou and Vladimir Vapnik, to name just a few.
So if you’re curious about the latest meteor findings in Antarctica or interested in high-end computing and scientific visualization at NASA, do check out our “tech talks” on Google Video. You don’t actually need to work at Google to “attend” the talks — but if you’re interested, we’re always looking.
Google’s Philosophy Updated “to be replaced, of course, by more blurry objects”
Lets look at google’s corporate philosophy in light of events in recent past.
Google corporate information page goes like this…
Our Philosophy
Never settle for the best
“The perfect search engine,” says Google co-founder Larry Page, “would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.”
Well there is a slight change here… it does not apply for what we do in China. We have convinced ourselves here at google that is it the right thing to do so don’t distract us please.
Then further down the same page they list 10 things they found to be true.
2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well.
Well there is a slight change here as well, really slight that we do everything now.
Right at the bottom of the page it updates it further
“* Full-disclosure update: When we first wrote these “10 things” four years ago, we included the phrase “Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat.” Over time we’ve expanded our view of the range of services we can offer –- web search, for instance, isn’t the only way for people to access or use information -– and products that then seemed unlikely are now key aspects of our portfolio. This doesn’t mean we’ve changed our core mission; just that the farther we travel toward achieving it, the more those blurry objects on the horizon come into sharper focus (to be replaced, of course, by more blurry objects).”
What they mean is “well if you think our vision is blurred, it is.”
4. Democracy on the web works.
C’mon, why are you guys thinking of China again. See its logical, we said democracy on the web works’… china does not have democracy so we are ok censoring results there. Isn’t it convincing enough?
6. You can make money without doing evil.
No don’t go there again. We have convinced ourselves that we are not doing any evil. It was not easy specially for Sergey. But we did convince him as well.
7. There’s always more information out there.
Not again please… for China there is only so much information as Chinese government thinks fit.
8. The need for information crosses all borders.
“Though Google is headquartered in California, our mission is to facilitate access to information for the entire world, so we have offices around the globe. To that end we maintain dozens of Internet domains and serve more than half of our results to users living outside the United States. Google search results can be restricted to pages written in more than 35 languages according to a user’s preference. We also offer a translation feature to make content available to users regardless of their native tongue and for those who prefer not to search in English, Google’s interface can be customized into more than 100 languages. To accelerate the addition of new languages, Google offers volunteers the opportunity to help in the translation through an automated tool available on the Google.com website. This process has greatly improved both the variety and quality of service we’re able to offer users in even the most far flung corners of the globe.”
Again it does not apply to China. I mean they won’t let us do business there we want to make $100 billion company and if we don’t include china our mission “to organise world’s information” would not be complete.
I mean now it is complete with we are doing in China but… whatever… we have convinced ourselves and we are not going back[period]
9. You can be serious without a suit.
Not if you are Eric Schmidt.
10. Great just isn’t good enough.
No it is not.
Google: Why we sell advertising, not search results.
Straight from one of the pages on google.com named honestresults.html
In a world where everything seems to be for sale, why can’t advertisers buy better position in our search results?
The answer is simple. We believe you should be able to trust what you find using Google.
It may seem odd for a search engine to speak about the integrity of its results. But like a news organization, we believe we have an obligation to present information as objectively as possible. That’s why we don’t bias our search results based on what people are willing to pay.
Google search results take into account who links to a web page as well as how relevant the content on that page is to your search. Our results reflect what the online community believes is important, not what we or our partners think you ought to see.
And while we believe relevant ads can be as useful as actual search results, we don’t want anyone to be confused about which is which.
Every ad on Google is clearly marked as a “Sponsored Link” and is set apart from the actual search results. While advertisers can pay more to be displayed higher in the advertising area, no one can buy better placement in the search results themselves. Moreover, ads are only displayed if they’re relevant to the search terms you entered. That means you only see ads that are actually useful.
Some online services don’t believe the distinction between search results and advertising is all that important.
We do.
