I get to see companies of all sizes grapple with various problems and the most interesting thing I've noticed is that each company has a "culture" that influences everything it does. So if it's an insurance company, they're going to think in terms of risk and coverage. If it's a manufacturing company they're going to make decisions based on flow models and statistical process control. If it's an quasi-military organization, they're going to think in terms of hierarchical structures.

It's neat to see Google continuing this pattern by applying tagged data collection and statistical inference to their quest for organizational optimization.

I can only imagine what it's like to work in a large-scale IT operation in the porn industry ;)