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Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:03 PM/EST
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Google plans to test internally a new Google News prototype, push more Google Pack downloads for novice users and sell over $1 billion in advertising inventory, according to leaked internal documents. The two documents -- titled "Big Goals and Directions" and "Objectives and Key Results - Q3 2006 Company OKRs" -- reveal several internal goals and benchmarks for Google's search and advertising projects. Among Google's biggest goals:
- improving infrastructure to make engineers more productive
- create a universal search tool for employees that contains "all public Google information searched on all Google searches"
- create the world's top AI laboratory
- get rid of spam in the top 20 languages
- push more Google Pack downloads, 60 million of which have been downloaded so far, according to the documents
- internally test a Google News prototype that will allow "other news sources, and organizations and individuals mentioned in news stories to debate specific points"
- create a time-based search function that reveals results on a "timeline of map."
Also making an appearance in the documents is Sergey's "Features Not Products" campaign, which is reiterated via the simple directive "Count total number of Google products and reduce by 20%. |
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Comments (6)
These are Google's top goals? You must be #@$% kidding me. Here's a stock tip everyone: SELL.
Posted by John R. | October 26, 2006 5:32 PM
Leak is probably not real. to get a real leak out of super secret Google, well, you'd have an easier time leaking the Pentagon. By the JOHN R. still shorting Google from $85 IPO and can't cover. His real name is Bill Gates. AH HAHAHAHAHA!!! Stupid idiot!
Posted by jack daniels | October 26, 2006 5:59 PM
Yeah, telling someone to sell their Google stock (John R.) because they think these "top goals" are not going to help the company. Look at it this way... every goal the company has made (whether leaked or not) has resulted in some very successful quarters. So, why should this one be any different. Each one of these goals pertains to either making themselves more efficient, making their users happier, increase traffic to their properties, or expand innovation. All of these are great things for a company (and a stock) IMHO. http://www.stareclips.com/?goals-leaked
Posted by umopapisdn | October 26, 2006 6:47 PM
Yeah, SELL! (so I can buy some more for cheap). Google's a smart company run by smart people, a real anomaly in today's "business" culture.
Posted by joe schmoe | October 26, 2006 10:36 PM
Sounds great - but do they REALLY expect they can destroy spam all by their lonesome? (top 20 languages is the same as destroying it IMHO) - also, if non-employees could get into that search engine it would be a bit scary ...
Posted by Bruce IV | October 26, 2006 10:51 PM
google has a better chance than many others at solving spam because: 1) they have millions of coordinated gmail users identifying spam 2) they have a dedicated AI mission and this effort is synergistic 3) they are not trying to sell anti-spamware 4) the better they do, the more money they make (what gets rewarded gets done) There is no question this is worthwhile goal, the only question is whether it is attainable and for the reasons above, I think it is.
Posted by marc sobel | October 27, 2006 12:54 PM