Edit: Don't know why I'm getting voted down. The OP was questioning whether there's a research group at Google, in the comment section for an article by somebody who's worked in that department for ten years. If that's not a definitive answer to the question, I don't really know what the OP is expecting.
> Edit: Don't know why I'm getting voted down. The OP was questioning whether there's a research group at Google, in the comment section for an article by somebody who's worked in that department for ten years. If that's not a definitive answer to the question, I don't really know what the OP is expecting.
It sounded like an innocent question to me and it was one I also had. While there is a research site it still wasn't entirely obvious to me how it worked. You're probably getting downvoted for the lying bit and being condescending.
Google has previously made it look like there is no Google Research "even in areas where there is a much higher proportion of research to engineering, the “Research Team” we have established is not as formally separate from engineering activities as those in other organizations" so I thought it wasn't a separate group you could be on the staff of.
Anyway, it's pretty easy to verify: http://research.google.com/
And the guy's profile: http://research.google.com/pubs/author1112.html
Edit: Don't know why I'm getting voted down. The OP was questioning whether there's a research group at Google, in the comment section for an article by somebody who's worked in that department for ten years. If that's not a definitive answer to the question, I don't really know what the OP is expecting.