Evan Williams Posts Official Google Blog 196
Luis F. Escalante writes "Evan, creator of Blogger, owned by Google, finally convinced Larry, Sergey and Co. to start up a blog. According to Evan's first post, we'll soon be able to know "What Larry had for breakfast. What Sergey thinks of that Hellboy movie. Which Dawson's Creek character reminds us most of Eric.""
So, what did Larry have for breakfast? (Score:5, Funny)
So, what did Larry have for breakfast?
Re:So, what did Larry have for breakfast? (Score:4, Informative)
Really good movie, shame it didn't do very well at the box office. Oh well, good satires almost never do, people don't get satire. *sigh*
Re:So, what did Larry have for breakfast? (Score:5, Insightful)
More to the point: people don't get the Coen Brothers.
In case site is /.ed.... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
Re:What beer am I drinking? (Score:3, Informative)
As in I'd Buy You A Beer post. Feel free to use this acronym when you come across a post that you totally agree with or sympathise with and you can't think of anything else to say except 'Man, if you were in my area I'd buy you a beer'.
Remember folks, IBYAB!
STOP IT (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:STOP IT (Score:2, Informative)
Will we find out... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Will we find out... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Will we find out... (Score:5, Insightful)
"I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself." ~Publius Terentius Afer
If you gaze into an abyss, the abyss looks also into thee.
Re:Will we find out... (Score:4, Funny)
In soviet russia maybe.
Re:Will we find out... (Score:4, Funny)
Mr. Furious: My rage will be my master, right? That's what you were going to say, isn't it?
Re:Will we find out... (Score:3, Interesting)
Because not much is written about my own life...except for my blog...which I actually read more often than is considered normal and acceptable.
--Joey
Re:Will we find out... (Score:5, Insightful)
People read blogs because it either a.) Validates their thinking (my guess: 95%), or b.) Offers an opportunity to challenge their current ways of thinking, and an avenue to respond to the opportunity (again my guess: less than 5%). Remember, blogs are usually heavily biased, so the people that read the blogs often enough to see every post probably agree with the author. Are not both stories and comments on /. heavily biased?
So I've rambled enough, but to paraphrase Pirates of the Caribbean... You'd better start believing in blogs, because you're living in one. :-)
Re:Will we find out... (Score:2, Insightful)
The majority of personal blogs are about whatever mundane thing happened to the person on the way to the grocery store. Outside of posting one for family and friends, I don't see the point.
Re:Will we find out... (Score:5, Insightful)
I think that is the point. I have a blog, and it's a no-holds-barred crapfest to anyone who doesn't know me. (In fact, it's a no-holds-barred crapfest to most people who do...) I have a few friends who read it just to see what I'm up to, and I just use it as a semi-public journal/collection of links I'm afraid I'll never find again. I don't ask anyone to read it, I don't think anyone does. (I've had 3800 hits since 2001, most of them myself.) Still, more than one friend has re-found me through it, so I keep it up. That, and I'd miss the links to stuff that I've thrown up haphazardly. Yeah, it sucks, go to some other page.
Re:Will we find out... (Score:2, Interesting)
I don't keep a blog for just blog's sake, I keep it as a random scrap book as what I've been doing: what programming projects I was working on, how much progress I made, or what-ever the heck interests me at the moment. It is mostly stuff I know I will forget sooner or later but would like to remember. Now, friends and family come and check it out (which is extremely useful when you have both scattered all around the world, makes a good way to keep in contact with everyone who cares without spam
Re:Will we find out... (Score:2)
If all you need are text and comments then I agree slashdot journals are just like blogs.
Re:Will we find out... (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, there's also the silent majority to be taken into account also.
There's always a bunch of people who just like to watch out of curiosity. Or, the site keeps up on things that they are interested in. Most people aren't bold, so they don't post.
It would be interesting to see the # of people who read replies vs the # of people who read AND reply.
If the ratio is anything like USENET, I would be surprised if 1 out of 100 readers post something on any given day.
Something to back that up without statistics: Notice that sites often get slashdotted and stay that way before 10 replies have been posted.
Re:Will we find out... (Score:2)
Re:Will we find out... (Score:3, Interesting)
What is much more often the case is that people read webjournals to learn about the
Re:Will we find out... (Score:2)
I personally find that to be useful, but YMMV.
Re:Will we find out... (Score:2)
No
Personally, I don't know which is more worrying - that people think that anonymous web surfers are interested in the mundane rubbish that they write
Whoops, Google /.ed! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Whoops, Google /.ed! (Score:2)
As a Brit in the USA it PAINS me to hear the same "joke" over and over again, when I'm forced to endure listening to the radio by others. It's all so f*****' fake!
Thank god my mate Peter is recording the latest BBC series of "Have I Got News For You."..., and thank god for BBC7.
Blog? How about design notes? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Blog? How about design notes? (Score:5, Funny)
unless he brews his coffee with a Mr. Fusion.
Broogle?
Re:Blog? How about design notes? (Score:5, Interesting)
Hear hear!
"Blogs"* have potential. Currently they are utterly disgusting because the whole thing regarding blogs and journals is ruined by boring people forcing their dull lives down our throats [livejournal.com]. Fortunately, the technology regarding journals is good and there have been some very good journals around. Now tell me, what's more interesting? A boring rand( 12, 50 ) year old (emo|goth|depressed) tosser from randomCity() ranting on about randomSubject() or having the creators of Google shed some light on the technical insides of Google? What about a journal where some people keep track of major (OS) projects? Gives one a view into what was considered during design, what was dropped, why it was dropped, what problems were encountered and so on. Even if you don't make your journals public, they'd make GREAT referrence material to improve oneself upon. After all, you learn the most from your own mistakes and if you can review the entire process instead of just the mistake itself, it ought to be more helpful.
* ... Change of name please. Blogs will forever be stained by the stupidity that is currently infecting them. That, and whoever made that word up should be hung, shot, burned, quartered and then REALLY hurt.
Re:Blog? How about design notes? (Score:3, Interesting)
If you are using LiveJournal to read entries of random people from randomCity() ranting about randomSubject(), then you are completely missing the point. I read LiveJournals of my friends (or possibly, some random person if I've found them to be particularly interesting, but certainly not people I find to be boring) - if you have friends, you should read thei
Re:Blog? How about design notes? (Score:2)
LOL... I love you people. Forcing it down your throat? You're telling me somebody is holding a gun to your head, forcing you to read other people's blogs?
You know what: I've never read a blog. I don't care, so I don't read. You do have that choice, you know...
Re:Blog? How about design notes? (Score:2)
Re:Blog? How about design notes? (Score:2)
IMHO, 97% (or whatever high percentage) of anything that is popular is going to be crap,
Re:Blog? How about design notes? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Blog? How about design notes? (Score:2)
Re:Blog? How about design notes? (Score:2)
Please don't troll this person's journal, no matter how uncool or lame or whatever it appears to you. It probably is someone the OP has a personal grudge against for some reason - otherwise why be so specific as to link to it?
Re:Blog? How about design notes? (Score:2)
I have several friends who post on LiveJournal and I enjoy their blogs very much. In fact, some of the randomSubject() posts have been so insightful that I feel as though I've learn
Re:Blog? How about design notes? (Score:5, Informative)
Especially interesting is Chris Pratley's web log [msdn.com]. He's got some great posts on the history of Word, the Open Source movement and other fun stuff.
how interesting.. ! (Score:2, Funny)
let me be the first to say... (Score:2, Insightful)
In the immortal words of Bender: (Score:4, Funny)
Inside insights (Score:2, Interesting)
I know GoogleGuy has been making some posts on webmasterworld and in the google newsgroups, but this is a more "official" source and I have allready added it to my feedreader since this afternoon (4 hours ago)
Re:Inside insights (Score:3, Insightful)
You really think that the engineers and other powers-that-be posting on this blog will give you the _Top_10_Ways_to_Get_to_the_TOP_?
I thought Google's attraction was that it was as impartial as possible, and that the search results, aside from precisely placed ads, were directly related to matching ACTUAL content to the query.
Not to mention that
Re:Inside insights (Score:2)
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://slashd
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.go
New name? (Score:3, Funny)
Bloogle
Glog
Gooble
Gooblog
Any others?
Re:New name? (Score:2)
"Bloogle" doesn't sound enough like "blog", and makes me think of snot.
Re:New name? - You missed one (Score:3, Funny)
Re:New name? (Score:2)
Re:New name? (Score:2)
Scoble - a search engine about SCO.
Oh wait.... Scobleiser [weblogs.com] - a blog about the inner workings of Microsoft. Hmmm. A SCO-related search engine detailing the inner workings of Microsoft - that's weird. ;-)
Bloggle? (Score:5, Insightful)
I'd be much more interested to know where the last few tweaks for the latest algorithm update came from, or what kind of servers they'll be upgrading to in the next few weeks. Their personal lives are of little consequence to Google or anyone involved with them.
Re:Bloggle? (Score:2)
Whoo! (Score:2, Funny)
Oh.. wait...
Zuh? (Score:5, Insightful)
Of course, IANAMW - I am not a market weenie. My money's in CDs...
Re:Zuh? (Score:2, Funny)
You must be the RIAA posterboy...
too much information (Score:5, Funny)
So much for the IPO quiet period.
Wow! (Score:2, Insightful)
Seriously, why cant we have a "blog" flag or something, so I can filter that stuff out of google searches? It's really annoying when I'm trying to research a problem and get nothing but other people ranting about the same problem..
Blogs are very rarely female supermodels with nude pics and lurid descriptions of their sexual fantasies.
Something in robots.txt that says "unlikely that anyone gives a rats ass"?
Add "-blog" to your search (Score:5, Informative)
Also add -post (Score:2)
Re:Not good for everything... (Score:2)
Re:Add "-blog" to your search (Score:2)
It's not a perfect solution, I grant you. But it helps.
Re:Wow! (Score:2)
Your preference to filter out blogs would also filter out the blog entries that detail a full working solution to your problem.
The use of blogs is not indicative of the content therein - apart for the characteristic of entries being in a reverse chronological order on the fr
Interesting... (Score:4, Insightful)
Nah, it's probably just a coincidence.
Re:Interesting... (Score:2)
I don't really see why this is modded as "Insightful", being the first entry in the Google weblog (the entry quoted in the /. article) states:
Fantastic! (Score:3, Funny)
I mean - uhm..
What?
er... wait. They don't mean Evan Williams as in Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey?
ahem. nevermind.
nameless (Score:2, Interesting)
That's cool, as long as they don't start... (Score:5, Funny)
Blogs.. BORING! (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm tempted to set one up... (Score:2)
What? It's not like I honestly think that anyone cares about what I ate for breakfast; 99% of blogs (if not more...) are simply not worth reading.
Re:I'm tempted to set one up... (Score:2)
If you hate blogs (Score:2)
The Connection's AntiBlog episode [theconnection.org]
The Mother Jones article [motherjones.com]
Its mostly on political blogging. I listened to it earlier today, but did not have enough time to do a quality article submission.
Re:Blogs.. BORING! (Score:2)
Re:Blogs.. BORING! (Score:2)
Re:Blogs.. BORING! (Score:2)
You do realize that slashdot is a blog, right? Journal entries, check. Comments, check. That's pretty much all we have here...except for the community, of course.
And if you counter that slashdot is a news site, look at all the editorializing that goes on in the posts/articles. Plus if you just read slashdot for the comments, you're basically reading folks who think their thou
Ok, I'm over blogs. Waiit, I've never been under! (Score:5, Insightful)
We're in the information overload age. People, get a clue. We need to refine our content and make it worth reading, not spew endlessly hoping it'll be useful to someone. I'm much more interested in the few words that someone wise has to say than the 1000s of words that the average masses has to say.
Of course... By posting this message to slashdot, I may have just killed my own notion of it's pointless to post stupid rambling thoughts.
Re:Ok, I'm over blogs. Waiit, I've never been unde (Score:2)
Basically, blogs help me refine online content and figure out what's worth reading.
Re:Ok, I'm over blogs. Waiit, I've never been unde (Score:3, Insightful)
I am in full agreement with you. I don't really care what you had for breakfast, sorry.
But it's clear that there's a large subset of the population that cares what Britney Spears had for breakfast. Look at all the folks who watch celebrity gossip, obsess over the lives of their idols, etc. We've even seen new idols created in front of our eyes (Survivor, The Apprentice, Ame
You don't Understand why Information is Important (Score:2, Insightful)
The dissemination of information is fre
Speaking as a professional editor... (Score:2)
Comment on outsourcing disappeared (Score:5, Interesting)
Originally he said something like, "But when we opened an office in Balgalore, suddenly we were knee-deep in the debate about outsourcing." They must have asked him to change it. Does anyone have the original blog item in their cache? I'd be interested to read it again, and compare!
Original Post. (Score:5, Informative)
Insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google.
Monday, May 10, 2004
Going out of our way to find the right people.
When we announced the opening of our engineering office in Zurich, a lot of Europeans seemed pleased about the possibility of working for Google without a commute to California. Zurich draws Italians, French, Swiss, Germans, and other Europeans, and is easier to reach from most parts of the continent than the Amphitheatre Parkway exit off highway 101.
Interestingly, when we announced our engineering center in Bangalore, we found ourselves knee-deep in the debate about "outsourcing" -- the practice of cutting a company's American operations in favor of cheaper labor elsewhere. India in particular has been a subject of a lot of press coverage on this topic lately, which we find to be pretty unfair. It's not their fault they have a lot of brilliant computer scientists who don't care to relocate to the States.
We recognize that talented engineers live in every time zone, not just Silicon Valley. That's fine with us, because when it comes to solving technical problems Google benefits from global perspectives, as well as a diversity of languages and working hours. We're not shipping jobs overseas, we're accommodating people we want to hire who don't feel like uprooting their lives, even for Charlie's cooking.
So, if you're looking for a place to plug into Google, we're trying to make it easy for you. We're looking for talented software engineers, top programmers and visionary computer scientists to tackle everything from distributed systems and information retrieval to algorithms, UI, and scalability challenges. And of course to unplug the lava lamps occasionally so they don't overheat.
So, whether you're in the market for a challenging engineering position in Mountain View or our new Tokyo office, or somewhere really out of this world, we hope you'll look us up.
Posted @ 3:30 PM / Permanent Link
Re:Original Post. (Score:2)
There's not much parallel between Bangalore and Zurich considering the difference in cost of living between those cities, but it's an interesting debate ... and one that someone at Google thought they shouldn't comment on. I wonder how op
Re:Original Post. (Score:2)
If so, do you think that Google is violating the said "Don't be Evil" philosophy?
Google blog entries (Score:5, Funny)
Opened up an office in Zurich, interviewing people.
McDonald's new chicken mcnuggets are actually pretty good
May 22, 2004
Worked very late today; also helped admin move some machines to the new location; local sandwich shop brought some roast beef po-boys
June 11, 2004
Our IPO went off today; stock jumped to $67/share; That new blonde we hired in the front office has begun flirting with me shamelessly.
July 27, 2004
Wolfgang Puck showed up in the offices today and made my favorite: Lobster & Truffle bisque with caviar. Though the Lobsters were only four pounders, I'll let it go this time.
Stupid contractors have missed another deadline for installing the penguin-shaped jacuzzi in the east wing. This is getting frustrating.
August 3, 2004
Got my new Lambourghini in and someone scuffed the ivory-trimmed dashboard! I'm having the dealership fire the salesguy and promise to deliver a new car within a week or I'll cancel the order for the Hummer as well.
August 4, 2004
Quit Google. Joined the World Poker Tour.
Blogging: So "2003" (Score:2)
No RSS Feed? (Score:3, Insightful)
Oh, right. Google/Blogger has picked sides in the feed format war.
What a shame.
Who Cares? (Score:2, Insightful)
Who the fuck cares? Look, I know that we have plenty of fifteen year-old girls who cannot live a day without being updated with the latest information about J. Lo and Britney Spears. Also, there are plenty of geeks who complain about people giving too much crap about celebrities; however, rants stop when it comes to influential people in the tech. field.
Do you really care what somebody eats for breakfast? No, really? Are you that fucking bored out of your mind that you're willing to waste electrons and y
RSS? (Score:2)
I read all blogs via RSS reader - no time to check 200+ pages daily.
Re:RSS? (Score:4, Funny)
If you are reading 200+ blogs, I think you have more that enough time to spare.
-Colin [colingregorypalmer.net]
XML Feed (Score:2)
What did they have for lunch today? (Score:3, Funny)
If anything, a free lunch is a good reason to work there!
Obviously Mis-Read the Title (Score:2)
Thanks for reminding me to hit the liquor store on the way home.
New link redirection (Score:2)
Re:New link redirection (Score:2, Informative)
Oh Yeah, This doesn't remind of DotCom mania atAll (Score:2)
I tell you, do the whole thing over again, Flooz and all. People are dumb enough to fall for the whole kit and kaboodle over again.
Gotta admit... (Score:3, Funny)
Now *this* is stuff the matters! (Score:2)
Slashdot, be prepared to hand over the tagline "News for nerds, stuff that matters"!!
Re:Cheap Whiskey (Score:2, Informative)
Re:So..... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So..... (Score:2)
Re:You've got it backwards, mate (Score:2)
Please, let's not drag Santa Claus into this.
Re:I thought they already had a blog! (Score:2)
I want my five minutes back!