[dilyevsky]

Nonsense. It’s been in the employee handbook (which you had to sign) and in the “10 things we know are true” for like 20 years

[jacquesm]

Except it isn't true and likely never was. Good PR though!

[lokar]

That is unfair. The engineer who suggested the phrase and the others around at the time were being honest.

But organizations change as they grow.

[jacquesm]

Engineers don't set policy.

[lokar]

At the time they (Larry and Sergey) did.

[jacquesm]

Yes, and look what happened. It's not as if they have disappeared, they handed the reins to a guy who walked all over that and got away with it. If they really cared they would have put a stop to that and the uncountable other privacy and tracking issues that Google has been up to over the years.

[olliej]

I do not recall seeing it, and I do recall looking for it explicitly. Which means even if it were there - which given this was the era in which they were removing stuff like this in order to win pentagon contracts seems completely plausible - it was not considered important enough to highlight or to put at the forefront of employee information.