‘There are dogs in there’

Intel chief ogles Google’s amenities And wonders if they power its success

Google Inc.’ s freewheeling Internet culture of Razor scooters and lava lamps has made it famous worldwide.

Director Paul Otellini, also the head of Intel Corp., says it drives him nuts.

“ There are dogs in there, people have futons in there, free food,” Otellini said Friday in a speech to the Churchill Club in San José, Calif.

“ It drives me nuts. It’s everything that is not Intel. We’re very disciplined and organized.”

While Otellini won’t be handing out smoothies or offering doggy daycare at Intel any time soon, he said the straight- laced chipmaker could learn something from Google. Mountain View, Calif.-based Google, the most used Internet search engine, has used its fastpaced culture to enable it to move out new products quickly, beating Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc.

“ There are things I’m learning at Google that I would like to adapt and bring back,” said Otellini, 55, who has been a director at Google since April 2004.

Google Inc. calls its headquarters in Mountain View near San Francisco the “ Googleplex."

It may be a zoo but it’s also starting to resemble Fort Knox, as new wealth has poured in from the stock sold by the company’s insiders, Associated Press reports. As of late November, a total of 14 Google executives and directors had pocketed a combined $ 4.3 billion ( U. S.) by selling 18.6 million of their shares so far this year, according to Thomson Financial. The biggest winners have been Google co- founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who have each collected nearly $ 1.3 billion by selling 5.3 million of their individual shares in an automated trading program. Even after those sales, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission records show Page and Brin still owned another 33 million Google shares — stakes currently worth more than $ 13 billion apiece.