Google systems
This system used as the management tool for users/groups/memberships, has its name derived from a Sanskrit word meaning "Lord of the people".
What is Ganpati?
The name of this photo management system is a take on the Spanish words for "My Home".
What is Picasa?
One of the top ten facts about this person is that their PIN is the last 4 digits of pi.
Who is Jeff Dean?
Dalles, home of one of Google's largest data centers, is by the Columbia River in this state.
What is Oregon?
Use primary/replica instead of these words.
What is master/slave?
A service for creating monitoring dashboards, its name is derived from a migratory butterfly that closely resembles the monarch.
What is Viceroy?
Internally named Taco Town, it is an abandoned project to add socialness and people-search to Gmail.
What is Google Buzz?
Described as Times as the most powerful woman on the Internet, Google's first office started in her garage.
Who is Susan Wojcicki?
Also known as Building 50, a bar near MTV campus, which shares its names with one of Google's founders.
What is the Sports Page?
Use allowlist/denylist instead of these words.
What is whitelist/blacklist?
The "M" in MPM stands for this person from the Greek mythology, who had the ability to turn everything to gold.
Who is Midas?
Codenamed Fireball, it is a smarter chat app that helps you say and do more. It was the predecessor of Google Assistant.
What is Allo?
The first Google dog - there's a cafe named after him.
Who is Yoshka?
Google's largest engineering office outside US.
What is Zurich?
This word was used by teams to prioritize work intake within a given time period. Unfortunately, it refers to a racist practice of denying various services to specific, often racially associated, neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
A commercial version control system (VCS). Once the main VCS at Google, now replaced by Piper.
What is Perforce?
A device that allowed users to stream audio from any device to any speaker with an audio input.
What is Chromecast Audio?
Employee #21, joined Google as a software engineer. Later became the CEO of Yahoo!
Who is Marissa Mayer?
Google's first international office was in this city.
What is Tokyo?
Instead of this term, use a term like legacy to refer to something that is allowed to violate a rule because it predates the rule.
What is grandfathered?
A minor character from "The Wizard of the Oz", provides libraries, automation, and tooling to take care of many production details, so you can focus on your application.
What is Boq?
Named after its creator, it was a social networking website massively popular in Brazil and India.
What is Orkut?
Best known for their work on Go programming language, they were the co-creator of UTF-8. Still a Google employee.
Who is Rob Pike?
The first Google data center was built in this city.
What is Santa Clara?
Often used for a surprisingly easy task, this word comes from a dance developed from the "prize walks" held in the mid-19th century, generally at get-togethers on Black slave plantations.
What is a cakewalk?