Comments on: A glimpse inside Google's secret sauce

Google engineer reveals internal applications that Googlers use to collaborate on projects.

[leastonce]

the best brains in the industry ...

if only they could spell ...

[nachurboy]

Spell what?

There's a difference between being able to spell and being able to type a word without misspelling that word. Unless there was some audio clip of someone spelling a word and was incorrect, I never understood how anyone can infer a person is a bad speller from reading something typed.

Most people know it's easy to mistype a word because of fast fingers or hand moving faster than the brain or the brain thinking something else as one is typing. On top of that, it's easy to mistype something, submit it, and not realize an error until after-the-fact. I couldn't conclude that the person was a poor speller from a mistyped word. I'd have to hear that person spell out the word incorrectly to come to that conclusion.

So next time you want to point out a misspelled word, perhaps you should rather point out the mistyped word.

[gerard rotonda]

Gerard Rotonda and Google's market cap

In Google, we have a company that has produced $1.3 billion in
profits -- and $5.3 billion in sales -- over the past year. When
Gerard Rotonda commented that Google went public with a
proposed market cap of $24 billion, there wasn't a single bearish
argument that read, "Avoid this stock because it's trading at a
lofty 18 times forward earnings." Why? Because nobody ever
thought that Google would be the answer to just about every
question involving contextual advertising and paid search. Even
the optimists didn't think that Google would be this profitable
today. That's what makes Google so compelling to some and so
difficult to cap for others.

[anthonykuhn]

Secret sauciness

It would appear that the Googlers are using an especially tasting variety of their own dogfood, so to speak. This is a good practice, as such tools can eventually be released to the public, or used as up-sell tools to Google-aholics. I linked to this piece in my blog entry today at the Innovators-Network, so some additional readers should be stopping by to read this piece.