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Here Are All The Weird, Secret Projects Sergey Brin Spends His Time Building (GOOG)

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Google Sergey Brin with beard at Solve for X

After catching up with Google[x] lead engineer Sebastian Thrun, we finally know that Sergey Brin is indeed spending most of his time working on Google's fringe projects.

He's taken less of a role in the day-to-day activities at Google and now spends his time creating projects that could potentially change the world.

Here's a quick breakdown of everything he's been working on since he started working on fringe projects at Google.

Indoor Maps

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One of the first projects released by the Google[x] team was a way to include maps of the insides of a building in Google Maps.

This wasn't a highly publicized feature, but it was still one of Google's first fringe projects.



Self-driving cars

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Here's the first fringe project from Google[x] that actually caught a huge amount of attention.

Under the tutelage of Brin, lead Google engineer Sebastian Thrun led a team that's building a car that can literally drive itself.



Google's Solve for X conference

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Google also hosted a big conference where the company gathered together some of the smartest people in the world to try and solve the world's biggest problems.

Brin was a big part of this — serving as MC with Eric Schmidt and hosting the event.



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