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Posted by Jonathan J. Rosenberg, Senior
VP, Product Management

We live in a world focused on celebrity, but there are also
luminaries — those guiding lights who actually inspire celebrities
along with the rest of us. Today there's a luminary we'd
like to call out: href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer" id="p_iz" >Tom
Lehrer. It hasn't escaped our attention that Mr. Lehrer
turned 80 last week. (We have it on good authority that his view of
numbers is such that 80 is not so different than 79, so he probably
won't mind this belated note.) We think he's great.
We're fans.

Mr. Lehrer is the Harvard mathematician turned parodist
songwriter-performer whose sense of humor, intelligence and rhythm
created a cult following that, weirdly enough, anticipated a lot of
what Google's culture tries to be about. His work is clever,
playful and fun and connects things in ways that surprises,
delights and inspires. (Consider href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNfx0FO4hzs"
id="zs_0" >"The Element Song", his ode to the periodic
table, or his lesson on href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a81YvrV7Vv8"
id="zp:h" >"New Math".) How could we not be inspired
by someone who can craft a good laugh, a great tune, and an elegant
equation?

From href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE"
id="h9_z" >"The Masochism Tango" to

href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FgMTAj4f_o"
id="djxr" >"Who's Next" to

href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-DHBiYnrc"
id="cjub" >"Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" (trust us,
you have to hear it), Mr. Lehrer's unique music carved out a
distinctive place in popular music in the 1950s and '60s. He
made his fans feel smart. An entrepreneur — and we like
entrepreneurs — he self-produced and sold his songs via mail
order. And for all the edginess in his humor, he ended up writing
some ten clever songs for the '70s public television
children's program The Electric Company, including
a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6gjvAYDZ6M" id="wdnx" >tune
about the letter 'e.'

Although Wikipedia notes that he performed only 109 shows and wrote
just 37 songs over 20 years, we think his impact and influence goes
well beyond those numbers. He was the best kind of "geek"
before the word made its way into pop culture. He's the kind of
character as comfortable teaching a university course on the
history of the musical — which he did — as running a seminar on
the nature of mathematics — which he did.

We hope that in retirement Mr. Lehrer is enjoying himself even a
fraction as much as we've enjoyed his work. We're grateful
that he's such a great example of how science, humor, music and
mathematics can be combined to create such wonderful things.

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Posted by Jonathan J. Rosenberg, Senior
VP, Product Management

We live in a world focused on celebrity, but there are also
luminaries — those guiding lights who actually inspire celebrities
along with the rest of us. Today there's a luminary we'd
like to call out: href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer" id="p_iz" >Tom
Lehrer. It hasn't escaped our attention that Mr. Lehrer
turned 80 last week. (We have it on good authority that his view of
numbers is such that 80 is not so different than 79, so he probably
won't mind this belated note.) We think he's great.
We're fans.

Mr. Lehrer is the Harvard mathematician turned parodist
songwriter-performer whose sense of humor, intelligence and rhythm
created a cult following that, weirdly enough, anticipated a lot of
what Google's culture tries to be about. His work is clever,
playful and fun and connects things in ways that surprises,
delights and inspires. (Consider href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNfx0FO4hzs"
id="zs_0" >"The Element Song", his ode to the periodic
table, or his lesson on href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a81YvrV7Vv8"
id="zp:h" >"New Math".) How could we not be inspired
by someone who can craft a good laugh, a great tune, and an elegant
equation?

From href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE"
id="h9_z" >"The Masochism Tango" to

href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FgMTAj4f_o"
id="djxr" >"Who's Next" to

href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-DHBiYnrc"
id="cjub" >"Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" (trust us,
you have to hear it), Mr. Lehrer's unique music carved out a
distinctive place in popular music in the 1950s and '60s. He
made his fans feel smart. An entrepreneur — and we like
entrepreneurs — he self-produced and sold his songs via mail
order. And for all the edginess in his humor, he ended up writing
some ten clever songs for the '70s public television
children's program The Electric Company, including
a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6gjvAYDZ6M" id="wdnx" >tune
about the letter 'e.'

Although Wikipedia notes that he performed only 109 shows and wrote
just 37 songs over 20 years, we think his impact and influence goes
well beyond those numbers. He was the best kind of "geek"
before the word made its way into pop culture. He's the kind of
character as comfortable teaching a university course on the
history of the musical — which he did — as running a seminar on
the nature of mathematics — which he did.

We hope that in retirement Mr. Lehrer is enjoying himself even a
fraction as much as we've enjoyed his work. We're grateful
that he's such a great example of how science, humor, music and
mathematics can be combined to create such wonderful things.

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Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search
Products & User Experience

Did you notice the chrome tulips on Google's homepage today?
They are part of a special Google doodle done by renowned artist
Jeff Koons. And that isn't the only art appearing anew on
Google today. As part of our iGoogle Artists project, we have
collaborated with almost 70 artists in 17 countries on 6 continents
to create special iGoogle themes — works of art that appeal to all
ages and interests. Artists, designers and other notables involved
include Jeff Koons, Dale Chihuly, Coldplay, Diane von Furstenberg,
Dolce & Gabbana, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Michael Graves, Philippe
Starck, Robert Mankoff, Mark Morris, Oscar de la Renta, Anne Geddes
and Tory Burch. While the list of those who have contributed themes
is impressive (I've only listed 1/5th(!) of the artists here),
even more impressive is the art itself — it's spectacularly
beautiful!

Until now, iGoogle has been about getting the content you want on
your homepage. The iGoogle artist themes take personalization to
the next level — allowing you to select world-class art that
really reflects your personality for your pages. It's what
happens when great art meets technology.

As part of our launch, we will be holding an outdoor art gallery
this weekend in New York's Meatpacking District, where on
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights the art from the iGoogle
artists project will be projected on the buildings, sidewalks, and
streets. This is a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=9th Ave & Little West 12th St, New York, NY 10014&sll=40.73962,-74.00633&sspn=0.00708,0.016619&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr" >
map of where you can find the display. We will post video of
the event on YouTube.

Check it
out. The art speaks for itself. Select your iGoogle artist
theme today at href="http://www.google.com/help/ig/art/" >www.google.com/artistthemes!

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Posted by Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior
VP, Product Management

This week Israel observed href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Hashoah" id="u3.v" >Yom
HaShoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, a holiday inaugurated
in 1959 to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. This is an
especially important day to id="omu9" >Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem-based
center for remembering the Holocaust's victims and survivors. I
was fortunate to tour Yad Vashem's href="http://www1.yadvashem.org/new_museum/overview.html" id="gc22"
>New Museum with my family last summer, and
was moved and inspired by the experience. Our guide told us an
anecdote about a visitor, a survivor of the camps, who recognized
an item in one exhibit and was able to explain its context to
museum curators and fellow visitors. This is why Yad Vashem is so
important: it's a place that preserves the horrible history of
the Holocaust and puts it in context for all of us.

But a lot of people, including many survivors, aren't able to
visit Yad Vashem. How can they discover and share stories? How can
they see an artifact or a photo and say, I recognize that item or
person because I was there? The answer, of course, is the
Internet.

We're proud to report that Yad Vashem has just launched two new
YouTube channels, href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.youtube.com/user/YadVashem"
id="gh7u23" >one in English, the href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.youtube.com/user/yadvashemarabic"
id="gh7u24" >other in Arabic. They feature
testimonies from Holocaust survivors, historians' lectures on
key issues related to the Holocaust, and footage of events big and
small ( id="o1kw" >Pope John Paul
II's visit in 2000, a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucu94QAi4dA" id="f3-o"
>touching family reunion). More
importantly, they are a way for Yad Vashem to surpass its physical
boundaries and reach out to an audience worldwide. This is the
promise the Internet holds: to inform and connect the globe, to
remember stories, to teach us. As href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel" id="gh7u17"
>Elie Wiesel said in href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=D_kuKXRLEnY"
id="gh7u18" >his speech at the opening of the
museum: "If we decided to tell the tale, it is because we
wanted the world to be a better world, just a better world, and
learn and remember."

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Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search
& User Products

It's been a busy week for the Google Health team. Last week we
href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/pilot-with-cleveland-clinic-for-health.html"
id="jw56" >announced our partnership and pilot with the
Cleveland Clinic. This week, the team has been at the href="http://www.himssconference.org/"
id="nka:" >HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems
Society) conference in Orlando, Florida, where Eric Schmidt gave
the closing keynote. Eric's keynote marks the first time
we've talked publicly about the product we've been
designing and building. His talk also offered a deeper view into
our overall health strategy. ( href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTZKNcx9sBA" >Watch the
video.)

Google Health aims to solve an urgent need that dovetails with our
overall mission of organizing patient information and making it
accessible and useful. Through our health offering, our users will
be empowered to collect, store, and manage their own medical
records online.

For the healthcare industry, online personal health records (PHRs)
aren't a new idea and, in some cases, online PHRs already exist
for patients. Here's what we think sets Google Health
apart:

Privacy and Security -
Due to the sensitive and personal nature of the data that will be
stored in Google Health, we need to conduct our health service with
the same privacy, security, and integrity users have come to expect
in all our services. Google Health will protect the privacy of your
health information by giving you complete control over your data.
We won't sell or share your data without your explicit
permission. Our privacy policy and practices have been developed in
thoughtful collaboration with experts from the

href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-advisory-group-on-health.html"
id="fdm7" >Google Health Advisory Council.

Platform - One of the
most exciting and innovative parts of Google Health is our platform
strategy. We're assembling a directory of third-party services
that interoperate with Google Health. Right now, this means
you'll be able to automatically import information such as your
doctors' records, your prescription history, and your test
results into Google Health in order to easily access and and
control your data. Later, this platform strategy will mean that you
will be able to interact with services and tools easily, and will
be able to do things like schedule appointments, refill
prescriptions, and start using new wellness tools.

Portability - Our
Internet presence ultimately means that through Google Health, you
will be able to have access and control over your health data from
anywhere. Through the Cleveland Clinic pilot, we have already found
great use-cases in which, for example, people spend 6 months of the
year in Ohio, and 6 months of the year in Florida or Arizona, and
will now be able to move their health data between their various
health providers seamlessly and with total control. Previously,
this would have required carrying paper records back and forth.
With Google Health, the user can simply import the data from each
medical facility and then choose to share it with the other
facilities. It's advances in data portability like this that we
think can really make a difference in the quality of healthcare.
The clearer and more comprehensive the information regarding your
health becomes, the better your care will be.

User focus - We
aren't doctors or healthcare experts, but one thing Google can
create is a clean, easy-to-use user experience that makes managing
your health information straightforward and easy. We're still
iterating and testing our user interface, but here is what the
welcome screen looks like:

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Posted by Douglas Merrill, VP of
Engineering

As many of you know, we spend a lot of time around here thinking
about new products to help you run your life more efficiently,
whether that’s organizing email in a better way, sharing pictures
with friends, or collaborating in real time on documents. What you
may not know is that we also spend a lot of time thinking about the
security that goes into those products, and more specifically the
ways we can protect you and your private information.

While the chances are that you'll never have a security
problem, we take security very seriously, and that's why we
have some of the best engineers in the world working here to secure
information. Much of their work is confidential, but we do want to
share some of the ways we're protecting your data. There are a
few things you should know about how we handle confidential
information:

Philosophy: First is our href="http://www.google.com/corporate/security.html" id="j192"
>philosophy. At Google, security is a
continuous process. We don't just "check" a product
for security before we launch it — we are thinking about security
before the product is even created, and we are building it in
throughout the product's development. Also critical is our
belief in layered protection. It's much like securing your
house. You put your most private information in a safe. You secure
the safe in your house, which is protected with locks and possibly
an alarm system. And then you have the neighborhood watch program
or the local police monitoring your neighborhood. It's very
similar at Google. Our most sensitive information is difficult to
find or access (the safe). Our network and facilities (the house)
are protected in both high- and low-tech ways: encryption, alarms,
and other technology for our systems, and strong physical security
at our facilities. And finally, we've learned that when
security is done right, it's done best as a community (the
neighborhood); we encourage everyone to help us identify potential
problems and solutions. Researchers who work at security and
technology companies all over the world are constantly looking for
security problems on the Internet, and we work closely with that
community to find and fix potential problems.

Technology: These layers of protection are built on the
best security technology in the world. While we employ products
developed by others in the security community, we build a lot of
our security technology ourselves. Some of the most innovative
components of our security architecture focus on automation and
scale. These are important to us because we're handling
searches, emails, and other activities for millions of users every
day. To keep our security processes a step ahead, we automate the
way we test our software for possible security vulnerabilities and
the way we monitor for possible security attacks. We're also
constantly seeking more ways to use href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption" id="o7ve"
>encryption and other technical measures to
protect your data, while still maintaining a great user
experience.

Process: In addition to technology, we have a set of
processes that dictate how we secure confidential information at
Google and who can access it. We carefully manage access to
confidential information of any sort, and very few Googlers have
access to what we consider very sensitive data. This is in no small
part because there's very little reason for us to provide that
access — most of our processes are automated, and don't
require much human intervention. Of course, the limited number of
people who are granted access to sensitive data must have special
approval. And while we hold ourselves to a very high standard, we
also work to ensure that our processes meet (and in many cases
exceed) industry standards. These include audits for href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ204.107"
id="uask" >Sarbanes-Oxley, href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_70" id="uc6_"
>SAS 70, href="https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/" id="czo3"
>PCI (payment card
industry) compliance, and more. By working with independent
auditors, who evaluate compliance with standards that hold hundreds
of different companies to very rigorous requirements, we add
another layer of checks and balances to our security
processes.

People: The most important part of our approach to
security is our people. Google employs href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/The-15-Most-Influential-People-in-Security-Today/1/"
id="d4xl" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"
>some of the best and
brightest security engineers in the world. Many of our
engineers came from very high-profile security environments, such
as banks, credit card companies, and high-volume retail
organizations, and a large number of them hold PhDs and patents in
security and software engineering. As you can imagine, our
engineers are smart and curious and are on the lookout for security
anomalies and best practices in the industry. Our engineers have
published hundreds of academic papers on technically detailed
topics such as href="http://research.google.com/archive/provos-2008a.pdf"
id="x:h7" >drive-by
downloads that install malware (PDF file) or href="http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf" id="plvy"
>hostile virtualized
environments. (You can find some of these papers

href="http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html#category14"
id="to:9" >here.) What's more, we cultivate a collaborative
approach to security among all of our engineers, requiring everyone
to pass a coding style review (which enables us to control the type
of code used here and how it's used in order to prevent
software problems) and ensuring that all code at Google is reviewed
by multiple engineers so that it meets our software and security
standards.

And throughout the company, we use our own products. That means we
protect your' information with the same security that we use to
protect our own company emails and documents. And while we continue
to innovate with our products, we'll also continue to innovate
in the world of security. For more on our approach to security,
visit our href="http://www.google.com/corporate/security.html"
id="b:bc" >Security and Product Safety page.

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Posted by Udi Manber, VP
Engineering

The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has
helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing
pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is
everything well organized to make it easily discoverable. There are
millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would
love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit
from it. We believe that many do not share that knowledge today
simply because it is not easy enough to do that. The challenge
posed to us by Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help
people share their knowledge. This is our main goal.

Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people
to try a new, free tool that we are calling "knol", which
stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who
know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about
it. The tool is still in development and this is just the first
phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we
wanted to share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind
this project.

The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. Books
have authors' names right on the cover, news articles have
bylines, scientific articles always have authors — but somehow the
web evolved without a strong standard to keep authors names
highlighted. We believe that knowing who wrote what will
significantly help users make better use of web content. At the
heart, a knol is just a web page; we use the word "knol"
as the name of the project and as an instance of an article
interchangeably. It is well-organized, nicely presented, and has a
distinct look and feel, but it is still just a web page. Google
will provide easy-to-use tools for writing, editing, and so on, and
it will provide free hosting of the content. Writers only need to
write; we'll do the rest.

A knol on a particular topic is meant to be the first thing someone
who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read.
The goal is for knols to cover all topics, from scientific
concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical,
to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it
instructions. Google will not serve as an editor in any way,
and will not bless any content. All editorial responsibilities and
control will rest with the authors. We hope that knols will include
the opinions and points of view of the authors who will put their
reputation on the line. Anyone will be free to write. For many
topics, there will likely be competing knols on the same subject.
Competition of ideas is a good thing.

Knols will include strong community tools. People will be able to
submit comments, questions, edits, additional content, and so on.
Anyone will be able to rate a knol or write a review of it. Knols
will also include references and links to additional information.
At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads. If an
author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with
substantial revenue share from the proceeds of those ads.

Once testing is completed, participation in knols will be
completely open, and we cannot expect that all of them will be of
high quality. Our job in Search Quality will be to rank the knols
appropriately when they appear in Google search results. We are
quite experienced with ranking web pages, and we feel confident
that we will be up to the challenge. We are very excited by the
potential to substantially increase the dissemination of
knowledge.

We do not want to build a walled garden of content; we want to
disseminate it as widely as possible. Google will not ask for any
exclusivity on any of this content and will make that content
available to any other search engine.

As always, a picture is worth a thousands words, so an example of a
knol is below (click on the image twice to see the page in full).
The main content is real, and we encourage you to read it (you may
sleep better afterwards!), but most of the meta-data — like
reviews, ratings, and comments — are not real, because, of course,
this has not been in the public eye as yet. Again, this is a
preliminary version.

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Posted by Sheryl Sandberg, VP, Global
Online Sales & Operations

Just over two years ago, I href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/about-googleorg.html"
id="fijs" >wrote here that we were taking a broad approach to
philanthropy under the umbrella of Google.org. Today Google.org

href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080117_googleorg.html"
id="qagv" >shared its game plan, announcing five core
initiatives to help combat climate change, global poverty and
emerging threats such as pandemic disease. These initiatives draw
upon Google's strengths in access to information and scalable
technology. We'll use a range of approaches including grants,
investments in for-profits and advocacy, and will continue to tap
the experience of Google engineers and other team members.

We're working alongside experienced partners to carry out these
initiatives. For example, one of the initiatives is aimed at
improving the quality of delivery of basic services, such as
education or clean water. In rich countries we take it for granted
that clean water comes out when we turn the tap, and our children
learn to read when they go to school. But in many countries in the
developing world, essential public services are not working,
especially for the poor. Governments are investing huge sums — to
the tune of $700 billion — to provide basic services, but the lack
of two-way information flow inhibits the effectiveness of delivery
and the ability of communities to hold providers accountable. The
href="http://www.google.org/inform.html" id="phbx" >Inform and
Empower initiative explores ways to bridge that gap. One of our
partners is id="qwa5" >Pratham, a non-governmental organization (NGO) in
India that creates the href="http://www.pratham.org/aserrep.php" id="zfs9" >ASER
Report, a yearly nationwide survey on education outcomes. Their
2005 report provided data for the first time on basic reading and
math skills for children in rural India. The report seeded a
national conversation between governments, NGOs and private
providers about the state of education and served as a catalyst for
change. Our support will help expand their work to other sectors
and potentially to other countries.

Please visit id="t42q" >Google.org for more information on Inform and Empower
and the other initiatives announced today

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Posted by Alan Eustace, Senior VP,
Engineering

You aren't likely to find your standard potato battery project
at the International Science and Engineering Fair ( href="http://sciserv.org/isef/" >ISEF), a project of the href="http://www.societyforscience.org/index.html" >Society for
Science & the People. Nor will you see many forced volcano
eruptions. You're more likely to notice the 1,200 students from
across the world coming together to share projects like "FDIS:
A Fast Frequency Distribution Based Interpolation Search
Algorithm" and "Probing for Cancer with Smart
shRNA."

In 2010, the ISEF will return to Silicon Valley, bringing talented
young minds together for innovative discussions and projects in San
Jose. We're very pleased to be sponsoring this gathering, which
will attract promising young minds from more than 40 nations. Since
we're committed to engaging talented minds, we will be
delighted to give this global community of future scientists the
chance to meet and compete. Prizes on offer include more than three
million dollars in awards and scholarships, in addition to
opportunities for internships and scientific field trips.

It's no surprise that this has been called the "Olympics
of science fairs" — we're excited to see what the next
generation of scientists and engineers has to offer! And you may
wonder why we're telling you about this now, since 2010 seems
far off. Budding scientists who want to compete have a lot to do
between now and then. Read more about href="http://www.societyforscience.org/isef/about/process.asp" >the
participation process. height="1" width="1" />

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Posted by Megan Smith, VP of New
Business Development, and Nicholas Creswell, University Programmes
Manager, EMEA

Googlers care deeply about creating a workplace that affords equal
treatment for all our staff, and while we do it regardless of any
accolades we think our efforts might bring, recognition from
outside organizations does mean a lot to us. Which is why we're
really pleased about our href="http://w3.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Search_the_Database&Template=/CustomSource/WorkNet/srch_dtl.cfm&srchtype=QS&searchid=1&orgid=5117"
id="wah1" >strong performance in the
U.S. Human Rights Campaign (HRC) href="http://www.hrc.org/placestowork/" id="ps-m"
>Corporate Equality Index for
the second year in a row. It's particularly exciting given that
this is a time of rapid growth for our population of gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender employees (whose group name is, naturally,
Gayglers) around the world.

This summer marked the first time Gayglers coordinated a presence
at Pride parades globally. In San Francisco, New York, and Dublin,
we had the largest (and perhaps rowdiest) presence of any
corporation, and href="http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=5qtS9bnQCj4" >we went one
further at Europride in Madrid where we were the only
global company present among 45 floats. We had lot of fun at all of
the marches, and it was a great way to bring Gayglers and their
friends together in the communities we call home. We're
passionate about our href="http://www.google.com/jobs/gayglers/" >diverse workplace,
and we hope anyone who shares our commitment to equality will
consider id="zray" >joining us.

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