S.O.S.: When disaster strikes, Raquel and Crisis Response answer the call
When disaster strikes, Software Engineer Raquel Romano and the Google Crisis Response team spring into action. They use the same Google infrastructure and technology behind ...
A rare inside look at Google’s top-secret data centers
With all the talk about cloud computing, it’s easy to forget that the 20 billion pages Google ...
Women in leadership at Google
As Eileen Naughton put it, she didn’t want to miss this party. Women at Google lead major portions of the business, growing their careers and ...
Going green for good
We want people to feel good about using Google products. One way we try to do that is by making environmentally-responsible choices in all aspect ...
Google’s Hamina Data Center
Thinking outside the box helped our infrastructure teams turn an 1950s paper mill into a high-efficiency data center cooled with seawater from Finland Bay. Check ...
Why I'm leaving Harvard
When he left academia to join Google full time, Matt Welsh explained that the allure was the scope and impact of the work he could ...
The front lines: Yvette and Sean on fighting the war on bugs
People depend on Google Maps every day to get them where they need to go. One wrong turn could leave our users lost and frustrated. ...
Google: Scale changes everything
Forbes digs into what it means to organize the world’s information to make it universally accessible and useful - and the enormous engineering challenges that ...
Google's Thomas Williams finds creativity in computers
Engineering director Thomas Williams encourages Googlers to "build their own treadmills," giving them freedom to set their own objectives, find creative solutions and even hit ...
The Google Gospel of Speed
"Speed isn’t just a feature, it’s the feature." So says Urs Hoelzle, head of our infrastructure team. Urs shares how milliseconds mega-matter for everything from ...
Google web grows in city
"Many of the most talented and creative engineers and scientists in our field of computer science want to be here," says Alfred Spector in this ...