Google新入社員のBlogを巡る小さなトラブル

ninetyninezeros, life @ google from the inside
http://99zeros.blogspot.com/
John Battelle's SearchBlog 1/26/05 Googler Blogs, Then UnBlogs - Updated
http://battellemedia.com/archives/001212.php

Seems a fellow started at Google, starting blogging about Google, said some not so nice things and probably violated internal policies to boot, and then quickly blanked his posts. This is his site (ninetyninezeroes - get it?). Empty, for the most part. And no Google cache or URL info. Clearly his site is not in Google's index - I searched for some of the strings in the text Phillip has on his site, not there. His site is on Blogger, and had been up long enough for Google to index it, certainly. So, it seems, the site has been taken out manually, something Google claims to never do.

UDPATE 2: A Google source on good authority tells me A/This was a new employee who violated some internal legal and financial policies (in his original post he talked about financial information and hinted at cool products coming up), B/He was called on it by Google management, and reacted by instantly taking down his posts and C/After sleeping on it, folks at Google sat down with him and agreed that he would take some of the more sensitive stuff out and then repost his musings. I'm told a side by side comparison of before and after exists somewhere out there on the web, but I have not found it....As for D/ whether or not Google actually pulled him from the cache or the index, the answer from Google is a definitive no, Google says that in fact their bot simply had not found the site, which had few to no inbound links - not an easy admission certainly, but one that I will take at face value. If anyone has any data about how quickly the average blog is found by indices, I'd be interested. I'm also curious how Yahoo found it so quickly. In any case, the site sure has juice now, and both the original post, as well as the new one and all the commentary, will be in the amber of the index forevermore.

Inside Google 1/26/05 What Did Mark Jen Say To Piss Off His Bosses?
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2005/01/26/what-did-mark-jen-say-to-piss-off-his-bosses/
Inside Google 1/26/05 Mark Jen's Blog Is Back Up
http://google.blognewschannel.com/index.php/archives/2005/01/26/mark-jens-blog-is-back-up/
ninetyninezeros 1/26/05 end of an exciting day
http://99zeros.blogspot.com/2005/01/end-of-exciting-day.html

i suppose the biggest lesson was how fast information travels nowadays. my old blog was pretty technically focused and as such, attracted a very specific audience. i guess i just figured that's how it would work for this new blog; it could serve as a place for me to put up my stories about working at google so my friends could all read it and i wouldn't have to repeat the same thing 20 times a day.
the second lesson was that in today's blogosphere, speculation runs rampant. i suppose i should've anticipated this one as well, but i hadn't learned the previous lesson yet, so i didn't really think too many people other than my friends would be reading this thing. oops!
anyways, here we are after the flurry of activity, and i wanted to address the most common criticism people have been posting around: i must be crazy/stupid/irrational/etc. becuase since i knew what i was getting myself into when i joined google, i shouldn't be complaining. while i do admit that i am a little of all of the above, i would encourage people to realize that life is all about compromises and trade-offs.