Google's newest hire is coming from a very unlikely place: 4chan. Chris Poole—AKA "moot"—the founder of the controversial anonymous message board, has joined Google. Poole posted the announcement on his blog:

Today I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined Google. When meeting with current and former Googlers, I continually find myself drawn to their intelligence, passion, and enthusiasm—as well as a universal desire to share it with others. I’m also impressed by Google’s commitment to enabling these same talented people to tackle some of the world’s most interesting and important problems. I can’t wait to contribute my own experience from a dozen years of building online communities, and to begin the next chapter of my career at such an incredible company.

Poole didn't explicitly say which part of Google he'll be joining, but he did mention "building online communities," which suggests he's joining the Google+ team. Bradley Horowitz, the head of Google+, also announced Poole's hiring—first on Twitter, of course—further pointing to a new G+ hire. Poole announced his retirement from running 4chan just over a year ago.

In the past, Poole has criticized Google and Facebook for their user identification policies on the Internet. Poole disagreed with the push for a universal, real-life identity system, saying, "consolidating identity makes us more simple than we really, truly are."

"Facebook and Google do identity wrong," Poole said at the time. "Twitter does it better. I want to think about what the world would be like when we do it right."

Poole's desire for more anonymity online seems counterproductive to Google's desire to track and profile users in order to better target them with ads, but we'll have to see what the future holds.