A hot story at Quartz named Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead was all over the internet. Google quickly responded officially that 20% time is still part of the culture at Google.

That being said, I love it when I see Googlers go into the various social media or forum settings and defend their company.

Google’s Matt Cutts, one of the first 100 employees at Google responded twice to criticism at Hacker News. First he said:

Second he added:

Another Googler under the name moultano first explained that you don’t really need manager permission to take 20% time. He wrote:

He then explained why this person complained and how this story came about:

Anyway, love sharing nuggets on stories from Googler responses in the corners of forum discussion threads.

Forum discussion at Hacker News.