Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google's Secret WeaponJohn Wilkes says that joining Google was like swallowing the red pill in The Matrix. Four years ago, Wilkes knew Google only from the outside. He was among the millions whose daily lives so deeply depend on things like Google Search and Gmail and Google Maps. But then he joined the engineering team at the very heart of Google's online empire, the team of big thinkers who design the fundamental har
