Google loses up to 250 bikes a week, Oracle worker even helps herself to them: report

Google is testing a feature that would allow users of its Chrome browser on desktops to mute ads before they start shouting. (Dreamstime/TNS)

It's no secret that Google's colourful employee bicycles often go missing – but until now the scope of the problem was largely unknown outside the Mountain View tech giant. 

Last summer, it emerged that some of the company's bikes – intended to help Googlers move quickly and in environmentally friendly fashion around the company's sprawling campus and surrounding areas – were sleeping with the fishes in Stevens Creek.