Why Google Doesn’t Have a Research Lab

hendzen wrote: post #3

NamTaf wrote: post #2

What's Google X if not a research lab?

A playground for extremely smart people they don't want their competitors to hire.

Sounds a lot like research to me

Re: Why Google Doesn’t Have a Research Lab

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Post by jestinjoy1 » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 6:54 AM UTC

Then why they have this: http://research.google.com/

``Research at Google is unique. Because so much of what we do hasn't been done before, the lines between research and development are often very blurred. ''

Re: Why Google Doesn’t Have a Research Lab

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Post by SeanA208 » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 7:01 AM UTC

jestinjoy1 wrote: post #5

Then why they have this: http://research.google.com/ ``Research at Google is unique. Because so much of what we do hasn't been done before, the lines between research and development are often very blurred. ''

The article is referencing the physical space, not the existence of a research team/department.

Re: Why Google Doesn’t Have a Research Lab

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Post by jacalata » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 7:13 AM UTC

NamTaf wrote: post #2

What's Google X if not a research lab?

According to the link, a product development group.

Re: Why Google Doesn’t Have a Research Lab

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Post by awalton » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 7:23 AM UTC

Google doesn't need a designated "lab space" because Google is a laboratory.

It might be different if Google were a chemical engineering company, but it's not. It's a software engineering company. Anywhere they've got computer scientists, whiteboards and computers is a lab. And that's basically every building at Google.

Re: Why Google Doesn’t Have a Research Lab

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Post by romanrage » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 7:56 AM UTC

Well, I think Google should have to make his research lab..Google’s research lab, Alfred Spector, has a small core team and no department or building to call his own,according to MIT Technology Review.

Re: Why Google Doesn’t Have a Research Lab

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Post by nostrademons » Thu, Mar 20, 2014, 7:58 AM UTC

hendzen wrote: post #3

NamTaf wrote: post #2

What's Google X if not a research lab?

A playground for extremely smart people they don't want their competitors to hire.

X is still very much run by Sergey. On the more experimental projects (i.e. not Glass or self-driving cars) you have a fair amount of freedom to experiment, but if Sergey wants something to happen a certain way, it happens that way.

(For that matter, the rest of the company isn't all that different: you have a fair amount of freedom to experiment, but if Larry wants something to happen a certain way, it happens that way.)