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> Internal documents though are created on a "public to all" basis - e.g. let's say you create a document with some ideas or issues with the next Pixel phone. This doc would be accessible by anyone in the company by default (you can obv change that).

False; Google docs have always[1] been private by default, and must be explicitly shared, either with individuals, groups, or made world-readable.

[1] I mean, I wasn't around for the earliest releases of Google docs, but even before Larry was CEO the sharing was off by default. That's just a sane default, because if you forget to share your document the first person you send it to will let you know, but if you forget to unshare you only find out the hard way.



I’ve been at Google for 10 years and I don’t think that’s true. I distinctly recall the public by default era.


You've got years on me, and my memory from before 5-6-7 years ago is fuzzy, but it's definitely not new.


I started 11 years ago and left 5.5 years ago and new Docs were public by default the whole time I was there. When I left there were murmurs about making Docs private by default but it hadn't happened yet.


Wiki pages are another source of information, definitely not private by default.




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