Google Inc. is an American public corporation specializing in Internet search. It also generates profits from advertising bought on its similarly free-to-user e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking and video-sharing services. Advert-free versions are available via paid subscription. Google has more recently developed an open source web browser and a mobile phone operating system. Its headquarters, often referred to as the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009 the company had 19,786 full-time employees. It runs thousands of servers across the world, processing millions of search requests each day and about one petabyte of user-generated data each hour.



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Many of the furnishings are themed around the colours of the Google logo.

Googleplex: The complex is studded with 'creative spaces' where employees can discuss ideas on a variety of odd furniture.

Sydney: Different shaped and sized pods are hung on the walls for staff.

The technology giants' Sydney office in Pyrmont is far from the predictable workplace with an area entirely dedicated to gaming.

Google employ 1200 staff members at their Sydney office who are encouraged to take active breaks in the basement with a rock climbing wall, ping pong table and pool tables.

There are multiple cafes throughout the office, all with different food on offer and all free of charge.

In house chefs are employed and serve breakfast, lunch and dinner at no charge to staff members.

Wow. Who will turn down offer to work in such an office? Beautiful office.

One of the ultra trendy meeting rooms in the London office.

A Google worker hoping for inspiration.

Designed to inspire: Cushions are all-important at Google.

Central Perk, Google-style: Staff Coffee Lab serves 19 blends.

Corridors.

Creative space: Workers can even write ideas down on white boards inthe corridors.

Paradise for creative thinkers.

Hi-tech video conferencing.

Work life: Google is one of a few tech companies who entice their employees to work longer hours with awesome amenities.

Rec room: An employee plays pool at a break area at the Googleplex in Montain View, California.

Free food: A Google chef makes hand-rolled sushi at the headquarters.

Hmm

Snooze: Google employees are even encouraged to take naps with these state of the art black-out chairs.

One of Google's server farms in Council Bluffs, Iowa, which provides over 115,000 square feet of space for servers running services like Search and YouTube.

Google's Douglas County data centre in Georgia is so large the firm provides Google branded bicycles for staff to get around on.

Here hundreds of fans funnel hot air from the server racks into a cooling unit to be recirculated in Oklahoma. The green lights are the server status LEDs reflecting from the front of the servers.

The Iowa campus network room, where routers and switches allow data centers to talk to each other. The fiber cables run along the yellow cable trays near the ceiling.

Even the water pipes reflect Google's brand: These colorful pipes are responsible for carrying water in and out of an Oregon data center. The blue pipes supply cold water and the red pipes return the warm water back to be cooled.

* According to its website, Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and “make it universally accessible and useful.”


* Google uses approximately 20 petabytes of user-generated data every day. (Petabytes are estimated at 10 to the 15th power. So 1 petabyte is approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.) It uses massive amounts of computation to index the Web, process search results, serve up ads, and more.


* In May 2011, over 1 billion unique visitors visited the Google website, up 8.4% from a year earlier. Microsoft came in second with 905 million visitors.Facebookand Yahoo held the third and fourth positions with 714 million and 689 million visitors, respectively.


* Facebook users spend the most minutes on the Internet with over 250 billion minutes in May 2011. Microsoft and Google came in second and third with 204 billion and 200 billion minutes, respectively.


* Google uses over 1 million computers for is operation and handles over 1 billion search requests per day.


* If you use Google Calendar, Google may also know your schedule, what books you’ve read on Google Books, and what videos you watch on YouTube. They also save all your search queries, your IP address, your browser and its set language, the date and time of every request, your SMS messages, the cookies used for advertising services, and third-party application data. According to one critic, “Google knows more about you than your mother.”


* In 2007,Forbesmagazine ranked Google as the best place in the U.S. to work.


* When Google introduced its “Did you mean . . .?” feature, site traffic doubled.


* Google provides on-site physicians and nurses, who make sure the employees do not have to leave the campus for medical checkups. Google believes that happy and healthy employees are the best employees.


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The only Google product m not using is Google Movies... N e dey pain me... I dey enjoy the music and books

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Whizzing into lunch: Google's Zurich office features a slide which drops employees into an eating area, where free all-day meals are cooked up by dedicated on-site chefs.