The Google Blogging Policy

An internal memo cleared up Google's policy today, and concluded with some good and bad examples of what to write in a blog:

OK: My team played volleyball at lunch today, we beat some people from another group.
BAD: My team is way ahead of the weather-machine and germ-warfare divisions.

OK: Pets are welcome on the Google Campus.
BAD: People at Google like to sit in their chairs and pet their cats while plotting.

OK: Google has several offices in Europe.
BAD: We look forward to renaming Europe 'Euro-Google-Land'

OK: We are constantly looking for the best engineers to work on exciting projects.
BAD: We're building a robot army at our secret desert office and need more engineers.

OK: There are some great recreation facilities on campus.
BAD: Employees who underperform are sent to the dungeon.
WORSE: Underperforming employees are sometimes sent back to Microsoft.

OK: Google is always looking to make its services available outside of North America.
BAD: Within 4 turns, we will control all of Asia.

OK: Over 3,000 highly qualified employees work at Google.
BAD: Google hires only the best evil geniuses.

OK: The company motto is 'Don't be Evil'
BAD: The secret company motto is 'One Webservice to Rule Them All'

OK: Googlers are exercising their mechanical-engineering skills.
BAD: Googlers are creating an evil robot.
WORSE: An evil robot is creating Googlers.

OK: We don't comment on how many computers Google operates.
BAD: Google only has a single super-computer, we call it SkyNet; it calls the shots here.