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Graffiti walls and a caravan are just some of the interesting design features in Google Amsterdam's newly renovated office.

A Google Street View Car with a camera mounted on its roof maps the streets of Central London.

0luwajuwon:
Lwkmd oo, explorers be like "oh am getting too old for this stuff"

quote from legal weapon/Sheldon on TBBT

lol....

Google’s first home, a garage in California vs Google mascots at the current Google HQ, known as the Googleplex.

mirej:
Nice thread as always. I think the topic is RARE not REAR, take note.

Tnx 4 d correction bro, i don dey old

Google’s offices around the world: Google has grown from a university research project to a garage-based start-up in California to the world’s most-used search engine. Today, it has more than 30,000 employees in more than 70 offices around the globe.

Gidoka:
He shoots!!! and he scores!!! @explorers

Lol...Hw far na bro?

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.

* 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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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Hi-tech video conferencing.

Paradise for creative thinkers.

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

Corridors.

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

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

A Google worker hoping for inspiration.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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