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What it's really like inside Google
At the Something Awful forums a user called ZorbaTHut, who claims to be a Google engineer who spend his 20% free time improving Google Calculator, has started a thread called "Ask me about Google (and Google Calculator)," and, at least to a geek like me, the results are fascinating. Unlike the many articles that have been written about the inner workings of Google, ZorbaTHut reveals trivia about the company that, while not of much interest to shareholders and Wall Street Journal readers, might be interesting to Download Squad readers. In case you don't have the attention span to scroll through seven pages of forum thread, Google Blogoscoped has posted some of the more interesting excerpts from the discussion. According to Zorba, Google employees get one terabyte of Gmail storage.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Razib Ahmed said 6:21AM on 6-18-2006
"According to Zorba, Google employees get one terabyte of Gmail storage"
Ohhhhhhh! I wish I could become a Google employee- lol. Anyway, I am happy that Google is keeping its employees very satisfied.
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