[Web4lib] Xooglers

[Jeremy Dunck]

Xooglers is a blog written by former Google employees.

I thought it might be of interest to the list, since current employees
are under strict NDA terms.

http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2005/11/google-goes-electric.html

This entry starts:
"
There's a lot in the news these days about Google Print... er, Google
Book Search. People wonder how Google could so arrogantly assume that
they can scan books that are under copyright and offer up snippets to
online searchers. I'm not going into the details of the discussions
that led to that decision here, but I'd like to offer my own
observations on the culture that bred it.

First, I accept that Larry and Sergey really are brilliant. I'm sure
that on IQ tests, they're off the charts, but that's not the kind of
brilliance I mean. I mean brilliant in the sense that they have a
vision that burns so brightly within them it scorches everything that
stands in its way. The truth is so obvious to them that they have no
patience for the niceties of polite society when bringing that vision
to life.
"