03-07-2016, 08:32 PM
http://www.businessinsider.com/4chan-fou...gle-2016-3
Quote:Chris Poole, the founder of the controversial online forum 4chan, is joining Google.
Google confirmed to Business Insider that Poole will be working under Bradley Horowitz, VP of Google Photos and Streams, the two products spawned from the break up of Google+ last year.
4Chan is one of the web's most popular forums for online discussions, but the site has gained a reputation as a repository of seedy or hateful content, notorious for spawning abuse and high-level pranks (for example, users infamously posted the password to Sarah Palin's email and spread thousands of nude celebrity photos).
Poole founded it when he was only 15 and ran the forum for more than 11 years before leaving in January 2015.
He writes that Google's commitment to "some of the world's most interesting and important problems" drew him to the company.