Talk:Google/Project 02

Regarding Google not having acknowledged this project
Check out: Search result of googling Google's own site

And here's an e-mail exchange I had with their press officer with nonpublished e-mail addresses redacted:

From: Fr. John-Mark Gilhousen Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 12:11 AM To: press@google.com Subject: [press] Google Facility in The Dalles

I am preparing an article on the Google plant site at The Dalles, Oregon, and am unable to find any press releases specific to that project.

Any information for public release would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

John-Mark Gilhousen Coordinator, Wasco County History Project

From: 	Barry Schnitt To: 	John-Mark Gilhousen Subject: [press] Google Facility in The Dalles Date: 	Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:26:38 -0700

Hi, John-Mark,

The information we're providing is in the statement below.

Statement: Google has technology infrastructure facilities around the world, which support the services we provide to our users. As the breadth of our services and number of users grow, we will build additional infrastructure to support them. Our facility in Oregon is part of this effort.

Best, Barry

Barry Schnitt | Google Public Relations

--J-M Jgilhousen 14:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Size of football fields
This is very vague. What size are "football" fields? Do we mean American football, or real football? These sizes should be listed in actual terms. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.89.64.176 (talk • contribs) 2007-03-08T16:32:56 (UTC)


 * As the site is located well within the U.S., that would be American football; "real football" is referred to as soccer. A football field is exactly 360 by 160 ft, including the end zones, or 57,600 ft², 1.3223 acre.  Ironically, a soccer field has a rather murky standard size which could be from 330 to 360 ft by 210 to 240 ft, or 69,300 to 86,400 ft², or 1.590909 acre to 1.98347 acre.  Regards,  —EncMstr 17:15, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Merged
The contents of the Project 02 article have been merged with Google. It should also be interesting to note that the three newspaper articles previously cited were really all the same source, with the same authors; the other two were wire service reports to the original NYT article. Dr. Cash 19:54, 13 October 2007 (UTC)