Google Guys Get Another Jet

But the company executives do have four planes now, the latest addition a Boeing 757 parked amid a luxuriously remodeled Boeing 767 and two Gulfstream Vs, according to the New York Times, who had to file a Freedom of Information Act request to confirm a Valleywag rumor.

NASA, you see, is still a government body, and lets Sergey, Larry, and Eric use Moffet Field as their own little hub. Ah, billionaires.

So why do three men need four planes – especially two large remodeled passenger planes? Well, Valleywag’s initial theories don’t sound too far off; either they want to be certain there’s a jet available when they need one or their insurers didn’t like the idea of all three company heads simultaneously dying fiery deaths should they be on the same plane at the same time.

Or maybe Sergey and Larry just couldn’t stop arguing over who got the bigger bed. 

Google got their Doctor, while Microsoft got some limitations imposed on the Doctor by King County Superior Court in Washington. Though both tech powers have described the court’s decision on Dr. Lee and his noncompete agreement to be a win, it appears Google has come out ahead.

The San Francisco Chronicle describes Dr. Lee as a “a rock star among computer scientists” in China. His presence as Google’s top talent recruiter there will be a huge win for Google.

Perhaps Dr. Lee will be the first to enjoy the comforts of the new Boeing 767 Google Jet after its completion, and take a trip on it to China. Previous reports on court records have shown how Google described Dr. Lee’s availability for recruiting before the end of the year was both necessary and not a violation of his noncompete agreement.

The judge in the case will permit Dr. Lee to recruit, but he cannot work on search or on his doctoral specialty, speech recognition, during the remaining time on his one-year noncompete agreement. Though he can’t work on those technologies directly, Dr. Lee can certainly appeal to college graduates in China with aptitude in those areas, and steer them to Google China.

David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. Email him here.