What I do at Google… no, really!

By Jason

One of the strangest things about coming to work for Google has been the fact that I can’t really tell people what I do at work.  That includes friends and family.  The work my team does is visible, in a way, to thousands of people every day but if we’re doing a good job they don’t even know it.

So when friends and family (i.e. you all reading this here blog) ask me about my job I end up saying a lot of vague, general stuff.  I feel bad, like I’m being evasive.  The best description I could come up with for Grandma was that I was the “Janitor of the Internet.”

So today, I’m happy to say I can actually share something with you all:  I wrote a post on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.  There you can read about the sorts of things that I think about all day.

A few other quick updates:

• Ann and I had our third anniversary on Wednesday.  We walked over to the Garden Fresh Vegetarian Restaurant for dinner.  Our trip to Monterey and Carmel counts as our big anniversary celebration.

• We currently have 560 votes in our baby name poll.  Some of the more interesting write-ins include Zora, Neeti, Ea, and Saskia for girls and Pelayo, Kaden, Nintendo, and Agitation for boys.

• I changed the way comments are set up so it’s easier for you to comment on the blog.  Just type away. If you read our updates via email just click on the headline at the top to go to the site and comment.  We have to approve everything before it will appear, and I have some automatic anti-spam stuff in place too (see my Google blog post).