Talk:Googleplex

message: The photograph of the swastika-shaped buildings is misleadingly called the googolplex...it
is only part of the googolplex (if that's even true) since 
googleplex, Mountain View, ca
on google maps (for those who don't have google earth) shows 
Google  - more info »
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA
(650) 253-0000
to be a complex with many building configurations not just 4 guildings together like in the photo.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.84.132.197 (talk) 18:32, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: location image

message: Is this any different from Googolplex?  I though that "Googleplex" was Google (the search engine)'s headquarters and not a number.
Acegikmo1 16:01, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's already in the lead. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:23, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Googolplex

message: I have reformatted this article significantly, cutting out most of the content.  The biggest section I removed follows:
**the abbreviated name of a very powerful computer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams:'And are you not,' said Fook leaning anxiously forward, 'a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity which can calculate the trajectory of every single dust particle throughout a five-week Dangrabad Beta sand blizzard?'
And I'm really not cool... :D I'm not sure whether the world used in this passage was actually "Googleplex".  "Googolplex" seeÆms more logical.  Can anyone confirm or refute this?
I also removed the reference stating that "Googleplex" means "Googolplex".  I think the distinction is clear enough that the former is a play-on-words while the latter is a mathematical expression.  As such, I highly doubt one would use the term "Googleplex" to refer to "Googolplex" (except inadvertently).
Acegikmo1 04:12, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: formatting

message: Parts of this appears to be copied directly from one of google's pages...
That might also explain why it looks a bit like a recruitment brochure. Willhsmit 22:46, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  copyright? 

message: I bet that if you look long enough, you'll see some x-rated searches. :P --Ixfd64 09:40, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  hmm, search queries in real-time? 

message: Truthfully, the article has good information but it flows very badly. And the first time I saw this page I knew a google worker had to have made it. Anyone for reorganization? - Illnab1024 15:24, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overhaul 

message: This is an article about the Googleplex in MOUNTAIN VIEW, not Google Inc. facilities.  If no one gives me a good reason why other Google facilities are relevant, I'm purging all that "cruft" (as our British editors call it) in a month.  Some of it is already in the main Google article! --Coolcaesar 05:57, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been 2 weeks and no reply. I'm deleting the cruft now.--Coolcaesar 09:30, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I am planning to eventually purge the data on non-Mountain View facilities 

message: So is that the actual name of the company —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.241.37.140 (talk) 16:51, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stinky Uncle Diapers 

message: Ardo191 just inserted a new photo in place of my photo without any warning.  This is really rude especially since Ardo191's photo has a variety of problems.  The biggest problem is that it is in shadow with the sun directly behind the subject of the image, which is a huge no-no in photography.  Okay, I didn't exactly have the sun to my back when I shot my photo, but at least it was to my side.  Another big problem is that of all the buildings in the Googleplex, Ardo191 had to pick one that's having solar panels installed in the parking lot, so there is some really unsightly temporary construction fencing in the background.  --Coolcaesar 18:48, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How rude... 

message: A NYT story calls Google's global network of computers the Googleplex.Mike Linksvayer 02:28, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Googleplex the network 

message: Several months ago, someone put in a mention of Apple Inc., which makes no sense.  I can think of 20 other companies within a ten-mile radius of the Googleplex that are also significant, like Yahoo and Symantec.  Are we going to put all of them here? No.  Eventually we will end up with company articles clogged with mentions of companies that are not even close neighbords, which makes no sense.  That's what the article on Silicon Valley is for! --Coolcaesar 20:35, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted weird sentence

message: Bold textA google plex is also a number. It could be called the biggest number ever discovered. The number "Googleplex" means like one thousand zeros or something like that. That is so big a number, that it couldn't fit on a three foot white dry erase board. The article dosen't make sense because, yes, there is a place called the "Googleplex", but I never heard of it. The first definition that comes to my mind when someone says, "Googleplex" is the number  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.23.92.22 (talk) 21:42, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're confusing it with a googolplex. This is addressed in the first sentence of the article. Nick Fel (talk) 18:12, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The googleplex and the googleplex 

message: Shouldn't the fact that it is the name of Google's headquarters be the first thing mentioned in this article? This is surely the key piece of information in the article, but it isn't actually mentioned until after the contents table. Nick Fel (talk) 18:18, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Opening of the Article 

message: I'm not sure this section is really needed. The only other use it mentions is a line from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - but I don't think that's particularly notable, as it's more likely that Douglas Adams just misspelled Googolplex than actually intending to invent a new word. Unless anyone can show why this usage is important enough to be worth mentioning, it should be removed. Terraxos (talk) 16:44, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for taking care of that garbage!  I always thought it was kind of irrelevant. --Coolcaesar (talk) 23:19, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Other uses' section 

message: ]]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.228.110.48 (talk) 05:05, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Headline text 

message: That photo is of a sign across the street from the Googleplex, at one of Google's many satellite buildings adjacent to the Googleplex.  Unless anyone objects, I'm going to replace it with a picture of a sign at the Googleplex itself.  --Coolcaesar (talk) 04:37, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Googleplex welcome sign photo is wrong 

message: Does anybody know how many employees are working at the Googleplex? --87.174.247.141 (talk) 10:14, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of employees 

message: I propose an employee perks section. As main article notes, Google was awarded best place to work 2007, 2008, and 4th in 2009, 2011. Shouldn't the WHY be documented here? Ckywht (talk) 17:07, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Employee Perks? 

message: The page should note the cafeteria is named Charlie's after Charlie Ayers, but before that when bldg 40 was an SGI building, it was named Cafe Iris after the SGI IRIS architecture.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.232.210.38 (talk) 17:19, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  cafeteria 

message: I am looking for real estate.  I keep going back to several of my favorite sites.  I notice Google knows how many times I have looked at this site.  Recently it commented that I visited the site many times.  I find that discouraging.  I keep looking for new properties newly listed.  I really don't need an overseeer counting how many times I opened the site.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.114.25.221 (talk) 23:48, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  recorded visits 

message: In Philip Jose Farmer's 1985 novel Dayworld there is a bar or cafe called the "The Googolplex". 
Zwirko (talk) 22:11, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similar name in ficion 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for
—46.133.77.194 (talk) 23:30, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: You haven't explained what error you're reporting, and the coordinates in the article appear to be correct. If you still think that there is an error, you'll need to provide a clear explanation of what it is. Deor (talk) 17:06, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 

message: Clive Wilkinson had a variety of concerns about the complex being too luxurious and more.  I don’t have time to add this but you can find it here.Technophant (talk) 12:04, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Architect’s criticism