Googleplex
| Googleplex | |
|---|---|
 One of the entrance signs at the Googleplex | |
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| Built | 1997 |
| Location | Mountain View, California |
| Industry | Internet, computer software |
| Products | See list of Google products |
| Address | 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 |
The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google, Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, near San Jose. "Googleplex" is a portmanteau of Google and complex, and a reference to googolplex, the name given to the large number 1010100, or 10googol.
The Googleplex is one of the company's 23 U.S. and Canadian locations. Google also maintains 23 European locations, 14 Asia/Pacific locations, 5 Middle East locations, and 3 Latin American locations.[1][needs update]
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Location
The Googleplex is located between Charleston Road, Amphitheatre Parkway, and Shoreline Boulevard in north Mountain View, California close to the Shoreline Park wetlands. Employees living in San Francisco, the East Bay, or South Bay may take a free wifi-enabled Google shuttle to and from work. The shuttles are powered by biodiesel.[2]
Neighbors of the Googleplex include Shoreline Amphitheatre to the north; Intuit to the northwest and Century Theatres, Microsoft Corporation's Silicon Valley research complex, and the Computer History Museum to the south. Moffett Field lies nearby to the east.
Other uses of the word
"Googleplex" is also part of a title referring to a minor character from the 1979 book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, a powerful computer called the "Googleplex Star Thinker".
References
- ^ Google Offices from the company's website. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
- ^ Spivack, Cari (2004-09-13). "Worth the drive". Official Google Blog. Google, Inc. Retrieved 2007-01-04.
External links
- Life in the Googleplex 2006 Photo Essay from Time magazine
- A tourist's guide to the Googleplex at Valleywag
- Googleplex East: Inside Google's New York City Headquarters, from Information Week
- A YouTube Video Tour of Googleplex
- Google Googleplex at Jokerblog.net
- Biking around Googleplex on Kinomap, interactive map
