Late last year we announced Project 10^100, a call for ideas to help as many people as possible, and a program to bring the best of those ideas to life with a total of $10 million. We hoped to capture the imagination of people around the world and offer a way to bring their best ideas to fruition. We were overwhelmed by the response - you sent us more than 150,000 ideas (approximately 10^5.2) in more than 25 languages and it took more than 3,000 Googlers in offices around the world to review the submissions. The review process took us much longer than we expected and we appreciate your patience!

We announced last week that we now have over 1,000 partners using our content identification and management tools to control how and where their videos are distributed on YouTube. Every major U.S. network broadcaster, movie studio and music label is using Content ID to identify user-uploaded versions of their videos, and decide whether they to want block, track or make money from them. As Content ID is proving to be an effective way for media companies to control, promote and monetize their content on our site, we're always thinking about how we can make these tools even more valuable for content owners of all kinds. Google since it's inception have transformed into a life-style of its own kind.

Job description is misleading and you may suddenly have an extraordinary amount of responsibility added without additional compensation. There has been a marked decrease in the quality of middle management and career development has been the last priority. There seems to be an overall lack of strategy in many areas; decision making is often not quick and clear. Google has also been making many layoffs due to current recession.