Google has improving the world explicitly in its mission statement which 
is my rationalization for why I'm not just exploiting this list for my own 
selfish purposes in writing this:

Could you all help me brainstorm ideas for improving Google, to prepare 
for my interview with them on Monday, 6pm eastern?

Thanks!
Danny

ps, new rule: any off-topic email has to at least have an on-topic 
postscript.  (I was wracking my brain for such a postscript until I 
realized that this itself qualifies!)  And by the way, since it's easy to 
delete a whole thread of email that you're not interested in, don't worry 
too much about whether your reply is of fully general interest (as long as 
you don't change the subject line).  Do worry about that for starting a 
new topic, of course, but even then, as long as your subject line is 
descriptive, it's ok to target a small subset of the group.  (I'm just 
throwing general guidelines out there -- basically, keep doing what you've 
been doing; it's working fine so far!)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:55:33 -0800
To: dreeves Æ umich.edu
From: Louise   
Subject: Google

Hi Daniel

Great speaking to you.

I have scheduled you for a technical phone interview on 11/21 at 3pm PST.
Please let me know if you have conflicts.

Some helpful tips in preparing for your phone interview:

Consider ways that Google could improve.

Consider the most difficult bug you've encountered/ fixed.

Talk through your solutions, as this can help the interviewer to asses your
thought process and/ or approach

Visit Google Labs    http://labs.google.com/

Thanks and good luck.

Louise

Louise Gray Irwin
Recruiter
Google, Inc.

650-623-5177
louise Æ google.com