Interesting to me mostly in that one of the first projects I worked on at Google was the third-party authentication system.
http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/AuthForWebApps.html

Quoted: Besides the obvious observation that folks at Google & Yahoo! probably don’t think it’s a good idea for random fly-by-night social networking services to be collecting usernames and passwords from users of their services ...

John Cook article on the new Google office in Fremont. My favorite part is how all the comments are about how awful it is to allow dogs at work and someone came on to comment:

"Heck, I'm going to try to get a job @ google if for no other reason that it would guarantee I wouldn't be working with some of the people on this board."

Quoted: Google's new development center in Fremont boasts amenities that rival some resorts.