Anyone know what Google's plans are wtih Google.org?

http://www.google.org/

The site reads ....

This will be the future site of Google.org – the philanthropic arm of Google. We are currently working on staffing as well as defining the goals, priorities, and principles of Google.org. We hope to have a lot more to share with you on this front in the coming year. Check back here for updates.

For grant requests: Unfortunately, we are not ready to accept grant requests of any kind at this time. Please check back on this site in the future.

For staffing inquiries: We will post a link on this site when positions become available.
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I am sorry but that means what?

I really have no idea, its my first time hearing about that.

This will be the future site of Google.org – the philanthropic arm of Google. We are currently working on staffing as well as defining the goals, priorities, and principles of Google.org. We hope to have a lot more to share with you on this front in the coming year. Check back here for updates.

For grant requests: Unfortunately, we are not ready to accept grant requests of any kind at this time. Please check back on this site in the future.

For staffing inquiries: We will post a link on this site when positions become available.
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I am sure G will never put anything like that.

Are they same company?~

I found this on Google here http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/execs.html under the profiles:

Vice President, Global Online Sales and Operations

Sheryl Sandberg joined Google in 2001 and is currently the Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations. In this role, Sheryl is responsible for online sales of Google's advertising and publishing products. She also runs sales operations and support for Google's consumer products and for Google Print. In addition, Sheryl directs the Google Grants program, which provides free advertising to non-profit organizations, and works with Larry and Sergey on Google.org.

Prior to joining Google, Sheryl was the Chief of Staff for the United States Treasury Department...

Originally Posted by shabbirbhimani

I am sure G will never put anything like that.

DNS records seem to confirm it is legit

Registrant Organization: Google Inc.
Registrant Street1: 2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City: Mountain View
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Postal Code: 94043
Registrant Country: US

On google nameservers too - so seems to be real. Could be interesting to keep an eye on.

Google.org
Org standing for organiseation.

May be things such as share info, and compaines that google managem support. Link to services.

Or could be just getting publicity from threds like it is now?

Originally Posted by someguy

DNS records seem to confirm it is legit



On google nameservers too - so seems to be real. Could be interesting to keep an eye on.

should have checked that.

Yeah it's really Googles but I am curious as to it use.

Well Google have got to have all of their domains as their own - i.e. .co.uk., .co.fr, so they registered .org.

I would imagine it'll be a bit like the developer's section of Paypal

Most big companies or thies big share holder have fundations. Like the HP Fundation, Bill And Melinda Gate Fundation and so on. G refer to grants what most fundation do. So maybe is a fundation or something like the XEROX's Palo Alto Research Center.

First time i have heard of this.. keeping an eye out to see wut it will be..

Its going to be google pretending to offer funding for coders of open source products but really buying the licences for them.

If you code something that google want they will give you a grant to fund development, but then they will get ownership of the final product.

It looks good from the outside, but really its underhand hostile corperate takeovers.