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The Googleplex
The two football field heart of Google
by Vamp Wednesday 14-Jun-2006
The New York Times this morning is running an interesting piece on Google's construction of a massive "Googleplex" data center the size of two football fields, with two four-story cooling towers. Dubbed "Project 02", the as-yet-unfinished building is rarely talked about within the company. Founder of defunct broadband provider @Home Milo Medin likens Google to the Borg in the piece, while admiring their networking and application architecture.

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Vamp
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Googlegrid

Googleplex must be the new name for what will be the googlegrid.

en102
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The borg...
You too will become one with the borg... resistance is futile.

N3OGH
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Re: Googlegrid

"Small words from a small being, trying to attack what it doesn't understand".

Like others before you, you will be assimilated.

Let the plethora of Borg quotes begin!

Drewskinator

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Re: Googlegrid

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

Transmaster
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Re: Googlegrid

Forget the Borg think the Matrix.
Warez_Zealot
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said by en102:

The borg...
You too will become one with the borg... resistance is futile.
Not before it eats your children (cats).

ThrowDemsOut
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said by Vamp:

Googleplex must be the new name for what will be the googlegrid.
And soon all the Google acolytes and fanboys will have a new target for their dislike of corporate America. They will have to split their hatred of Microsoft with a hatred of Google. Google will stop being everyone's favorite internet entity as they continue to grow into the Yankees of the web. After all, no one can love the team that always wins. Just ask Bill Gates.
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Re: Googlegrid

said by ThrowDemsOut:

And soon all the Google acolytes and fanboys will have a new target for their dislike of corporate America. They will have to split their hatred of Microsoft with a hatred of Google. Google will stop being everyone's favorite internet entity as they continue to grow into the Yankees of the web. After all, no one can love the team that always wins. Just ask Bill Gates.
Sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the crypt.

One thing that makes Google easy to like is that the products they make work.
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SimbaTLK1
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Re: Googlegrid

said by sporkme:

One thing that makes Google easy to like is that the products they make work.
What a concept!!

--Matt--

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Re: Googlegrid

And the funny thing is ---- I never stopped using Yahoo - they find teh same things for me just as fast. I have yet to figure out the hoopla over Google...
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Re: Googlegrid

When i use Google i don't have to load up the gigantic yahoo page, ever.

That's it.

(Also, the reason Yahoo search is the same thing as Google is because they don't do their own search--they just buy Google's.)
petecellar

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Right... because if you have voice disagreements with a large monopoly, you're an anti-American fanboy.
Yeah, everybody hates a winner... just ask Michael Jordan.

asdfdfdf

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"And soon all the Google acolytes and fanboys..."

Doesn't this contradict your implication that their hatred of microsoft is a knee jerk dislike of corporate america?

"no one can love the team that always wins"

I agree people will turn on google eventually, but that has more to do with the fact that people who always win tend to become arrogant overbearing holes. Until google becomes corrupted by its own success it will likely keep its fanboys.

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I own Google shares.

Therefore I am authorized to comment on the positives of this article.

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They must be creating the new atomic bomb in there.

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Look inside the googleplex

»www.time.com/time/photoessays/20···dex.html

Time did a story on the googleplex. Check it out!

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Re: Look inside the googleplex

wow, free meals, massages, swimming, and pool. and they pay you to do it!

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Re: Look inside the googleplex

said by 53059959:

wow, free meals, massages, swimming, and pool. and they pay you to do it!
Yeah. Now there's no excuse to take a vacation or only work from 8-5
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camstone

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Re: Look inside the googleplex

Gahds, if only the government bene's were so good!

richardpor
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Yea but how much money that is spent on employee thrills that could have been put in something that will bring real ROI.

Frankly I seen it before during the dot-com con era. VC money was burned up on perks instead of business growth.

Also I would go nuts at Google. I need to have my OWN life. A steady good paying job without perks is better than a lot of perks and long hours.

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Too bad it's not the right GooglePlex...

-Antwan L.

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The Google Dome

Excellent place for next years super bowl...lol

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Worried

I've been worried for quite some time that Google is becoming the largest data mining company ever. There are many steps that one can take to thwart Google's data mining but it seems complete resistance is futile.
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Re: Worried

And people fret over the NSA.
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Re: Worried

Google can't disappear people.
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Re: Worried

Wanna bet? Maybe not physically but your identity is at their disposal.

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Talk about privacy concerns, the Google Toolbar and even Google Desktop (not to mention the "Search Assist" and "URL Assistant" garbageware) is shipping straight from the factory on all our new Dell Optiplex PC's here at work. I can see them shipping this crap on a home user's PC but on corporate systems?

I still need to call Dell though and see if we can opt out of this crapware.

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Re: Worried

said by mc2-2 :

Talk about privacy concerns, the Google Toolbar and even Google Desktop (not to mention the "Search Assist" and "URL Assistant" garbageware) is shipping straight from the factory on all our new Dell Optiplex PC's here at work. I can see them shipping this crap on a home user's PC but on corporate systems?

I still need to call Dell though and see if we can opt out of this crapware.
Get Ghost and have them image your units (if you have enough purchases, of course).

I can't stand their default software loads....Ok if it's a home user, but come on.
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I agree. Dell needs to stop doing that. Supports budgets are too tight as it is without them adding more software. First thing I do when I unpack an Optiplex is uninstall these 4 programs, and the ancient Java runtime they install.

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