  urlLink The Observer | Business | The Networker: What can't you find on Google? Vital statistics : "More than half the company's 1,000 employees are techies, and they are much in demand as seminar speakers in university computer-science departments, where people are curious about Google's technology. Wall Street - with its beady eye on the forthcoming IPO - wants to know what Google does (and more importantly, what it plans to do next).
Computer scientists, in contrast, want to know how Google does it. The two questions are different but increasingly, it seems, interlinked. At any rate, the technical community has begun to realise that presentations by Google techies have been run through some kind of corporate filter before they make it into Powerpoint. The operation of the filter is erratic (it's difficult for PR flacks effectively to censor geeks at the best of times), but it seems that the overall aim is to understate every aspect of Google's technology and technical performance by several orders of magnitude. " 
