google tours?

[Gateway]

I live pretty close to google and drive by their building every now and then, im wondering if google ever does any small tours of their place?

that way i can sneak in and add all my domains from their master admin control panel .. heheh j/k

just curious.

[GoogleGuy]

Hey Gateway, we usually don't do tours of the GooglePlex. If you drive around, there are lots of signs with the Google logo that you could take a snapshot of though. :)

[martinibuster]

You could go to the SES Conference in San Jose this August- Google's hosting a party and stuff.

I think. (I skimmed the web site.)

[Gateway]

Yea i was thinking of going to that, a bit pricey for me for the conf, but i could check out the expo floor and if anyone is nice get a party pass :)

heading to a conf in a week in florida, there will be some traffic talk round tables.

I have been learning alot about SE traffic, sorta my hobby, run a few sites and am about to launch some new pda technology.

[Dolemite]

If you drive around, there are lots of signs with the Google logo that you could take a snapshot of though. :)

Thrilling!

[Dayo_UK]

If you drive around, there are lots of signs with the Google logo that you could take a snapshot of though.

Thrilling!

Thrilling :) but it does happen:- (message 13)

[webmasterworld.com...]

Googleguy if you are looking out the window over the next few days watch out for Gateway ;)

[gstewart]

Thrilling

For us diehard Googlophiles, a pic next to the world famous Google HQ would indeed be thrilling...

[Gateway]

see what i started? :)

ok, ill have to break out my camera, should i bring some girls as well to post in front of the signs? :) what about the google police will they come and take us away :)

:>

[peewhy]

Be creative Gateway, use a camcorder and with that famous Logo in the background shout ... Yahoo!

Or invite Googleguy for a tour around your kitchen ... and give him a picture of the 'beware of the dog sign' :)

Seriously though, why not drop the CEO a nice letter, you never know! You've nothing to lose that's for sure.

[mahlon]

Gateway,

get a job as a janitor there for a week! ;-)

Quote from GoogleGuy June 12, 2003

Q: Do they give tours of the Googleplex?
A: I don’t think that there are tours in general. Although once I was looking out a window and I saw something neat. A car pulled up pretty fast and stopped right outside the Googleplex. Three people piled out and gathered out front in front of the sign for our building. One person snapped a picture of the other two guys standing in front of the “Google” sign. Then they hopped back in the car and drove off. It didn’t take over two minutes. :)

[Gateway]

Ok time to turn on my Mission Impossible Music.

Actually does google have a store where you can buy Google items, shirts etc stuff like that?

Im deff gonna go to the SES conf In Aug when I get back from the Adult One in Florida... :)

shhhh

[Shak]

http*:www.googlestore.com :)

maybe if you turn up at HQ wearing:
[googlestore.com...]

they will let you in?

Shak

[Gateway]

hmm maybe i can get my gf to just ware this and we can walk in?

[googlestore.com...]

jokeing aside, just curious about the google campus.. im not a stalker i sware, just a geek who likes technology :)

[dragonlady7]

>maybe if you turn up at HQ wearing:

And nothing else?
They'd arrest you, is what they'd do!

Terrifying. I don't think Google needs fans like that. :)

[dragonlady7]

>maybe i can get my gf to just ware this

I fully expected that link to be a female counterpart of the first one, and my thought process was exactly thus:
"Whoa! Google makes women's underwear? I need me a pair!"

Such a shame. If I had I'm Feeling Lucky undies I'd be invincible. (Well, not as invincible as when I was 2 and had Wonder Woman Underoos. Those ruled. Do they still make those? Say, in a size 7?)

Hm. Ok, I should stop talking about underwear.

The Google website makes the Googleplex sound so cool. I want to go there and sit on their bouncy ball chairs and surround myself with retro dot-com chic. I want to become a Googler! But they don't need my negligible skills... :( Think it would help if I went and got a PhD?

[Gateway]

You know think nice woman’s panties with google on the back and "im feeling lucky" on the front would be a great hit!

hmm.. /me registers googlepanties.com :) j/k

I actually ordered some google ware today, hope it arrives before I have to head off to my convention at the end of the month.

[gregh]

the googleplex does look fun. Their parties look fun as well, might be worth paying the high price to get in just to go.

maybe someday when i buy out google i'll give you a free tour :-P

[Jenstar]

"Whoa! Google makes women's underwear? I need me a pair!"

dragonlady7, I thought the exact same thing when I saw the second link. Guess I'll just have to get the super-sized Google latte mug instead ;)

[Powdork]

I happen to make womens Google panties. I just need you to send me ...:)

[Powdork]

[images.google.com...]

Oops, I hope thats an ok link to post

[peewhy]

There's money in this!

Start your own Google Tours business, rent a warehouse, stick some googleware in it, and charge silly money.

When Google demand that you stop, just make an appointment with the CEO in his office to discuss terms, :)

[thewebboy]

hum, maybe if you have a huge ad words account they will let you take a tour? :)

[peewhy]

In all honesty, would you really want to take a tour?

[Gateway]

why not take a tour, technology, how companies work/run always interest me, obviously google is doing something right they are still around. I always like to network and pick peoples brains.

anyhow, i noticed in the google shop there is a book there called "google hacks" anyone bought this?

[Miraenda]

I noticed the google hacks book Friday when I was in Barnes and Noble. It looked interesting, but I wanted to see some reviews about it first, so I would really be interested in anyone's opinion on the book who has read it.

On the tours topic, do other search-related companies (like Yahoo, let's say) typically offer tours? If most such companies have tours, I wonder why Google doesn't. I've only been on one company tour. My father worked for Maytag in Newton, Iowa, and I toured the factory when I was 10. Boy, was that exciting... :)

[Mohamed_E]

I very much doubt that there is a demand for tours at any other search engine company. Google has succeeded admirably in capturing public attention with the combination of a great product and a hip image.

What would be the Microsoft equivalent of the "I feel lucky" boxer shorts that were featured earlier in this thread?

[SlowMove]

Rumor has it that the guard at the front desk sleeps all day. You should be alright if you don't steel any office supplies.

[bolitto]

No one has any self respect anymore.....

[peewhy]

He's not sleeping, he's got a built-in search engine ... he's just online :)