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Entrance to lobby of Building 40

The Googleplex is the company headquarters for Google, Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, near San Jose. The name Googleplex is a play on words, being a combination of the words Google and complex, and a reference to googolplex, the name given to the large number. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... This article is about a number. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1306x861, 464 KB) Adjusted version of Image:Googleplexlobby. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1306x861, 464 KB) Adjusted version of Image:Googleplexlobby. ... This article is about the corporation. ... For the community near Martinez, California, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. ... Santa Clara County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... For other uses, see San José. Nickname: Location of San Jose within Santa Clara County, California. ... This article is about a number. ...

Facilities and history

The south side of the Googleplex

The four core buildings, totaling 506,317 ft² (47,038 m²), were built for and originally occupied by SGI. They were leased by Google beginning in 2003.^[1] In June 2006, Google purchased the property from Silicon Graphics for $319 million.^[2] Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1536x983, 435 KB) Summary Another view of the south side of the Googleplex from Charleston Road. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1536x983, 435 KB) Summary Another view of the south side of the Googleplex from Charleston Road. ... Silicon Graphics, Inc. ...

Although the buildings are of relatively low height, the complex covers a large area. The interior of the headquarters is furnished with items like shade lamps and giant rubber balls. The lobby contains a piano and a projection of current live Google search queries. The facilities include a gym (Building 40), free laundry rooms (Buildings 40 and 42), two small swimming pools, a sand volleyball court, and more than a dozen cafeterias of diverse selection. Google has even installed replicas of SpaceShipOne and a dinosaur skeleton.^[3] SpaceShipOne is small, having a three-person cabin and short but wide wings. ...

In late 2006, the company announced plans to install a series of solar panels, capable of producing 1.6 megawatts of electricity, by the following spring. It is believed that this could be the largest such installation in the country. About 30 percent of the Googleplex's electricity needs will be fulfilled by this project, with the remainder being purchased.^[4] About one third of the panels will be in the form of "solar trees" mounted on poles above parking lots, with the remainder placed on rooftops. ^[5]

The solar panel project went online on 18 June 2007. As of 21 June 2007 Google has installed over 90% of the 9,212 solar panels that comprise the 1.6 megawatt project. ^[6] is the 169th day of the year (170th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

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 or the East Bay may take a wifi-enabled Google subsidized shuttle to and from work. It is powered by domestically grown and processed biodiesel.^[7] Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. ... Shoreline Park is a park in Mountain View, California, USA. It was originally a landfill for San Francisco garbage. ... A subtropical wetland in Florida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile. ... This article is about transesterified lipids. ...

Sign at the Googleplex

Neighbors of the Googleplex include ALZA Plaza and the Mozilla Foundation to the west; 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. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels Full resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels Full resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 1. ... ALZA Corporation ALZA Corporation is a pharmaceutical company founded in 1968 by Dr. Alejandro Zaffaroni. ... The Mountain View office shared by the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation The Mozilla Foundation (abbreviated MF or MoFo) is a non-profit organization that exists to support and provide leadership for the open source Mozilla project. ... Shoreline Amphitheatre as seen from ground level Aerial photograph of Shoreline Amphitheatre, with the parking lots and the neighbouring golf course Shoreline Amphitheatre is an outdoor amphitheater in Mountain View, California, USA, in the San Francisco Bay Area. ... Intuit Inc. ... Century Theatres is a movie theater chain which operates many multiplexes in the western United States; primarily in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), (founded 1975), headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, is the worlds largest software company (with over 50,000 employees in various countries, as of May 2004). ... For the Nintendo 64 game, see Space Station Silicon Valley. ... The Computer History Museum in Mountain View. ... Aerial View of Moffett Field and NASA Ames Research Center. ...

In September 2007, NASA revealed that Google's founders had secured access to Moffett Field for their Boeing 767 and two Gulfstream Vs by paying a $1.3 million fee and allowing NASA to use the aircraft for scientific expeditions. American Airlines Boeing 767-300 at Gatwick Airport, England. ... The Gulfstream V are business jet aircraft produced by Gulfstream Aerospace. ...

Other uses of the word

Prior to 7 September 1998

Googleplex (exact spelling) is also the abbreviated name of a very powerful computer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979, ISBN 0-330-25864-8), a novel by Douglas Adams. It was also carried in the script^[8] for the episode broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 29 March 1978, and contained in the television version on 26 January 1981 on BBC Two. In chapter 25 of the novel, Fook asks Deep Thought anxiously: The cover of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, from a late 1990s US printing. ... See also: 1978 in literature, other events of 1979, 1980 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... old Radio 4 logo BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... AUGUST 25 1981 US Marine Sean Vance is Born on the 25th of August {ear nav|1981}} Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 2. ... The following is a list of minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...

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References

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External links

• Life in the Googleplex Photo Essay
• The Google Culture
• A Glimpse Inside Google - Googlers at work & play
• Google Quick Information
• Googleplex at WikiMapia
• A visual tour of Google's NYC HQ

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