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Inside Google's London Complex

Posted by Zonk on from the morning-browsing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has some interesting pictures of Google's new London office which is incidentally looking to boost its 200-man headcount. Also, a Doodle 4 Google contest was held in conjunction with the office opening for schoolchildren."

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  1. Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't see why Google needed doodles drawn for them. They have a search engine filled with thousands if you turn off the adult protection.

  2. Prizes by The+New+Andy · · Score: 5, Funny
    The winner of the Doodle 4 Google contest is Lisa Waiwaina, age 11. For her doodle, titled "Day of the Child," her prize was an upper case "G" of frosted glass, and her school won an interactive whiteboard.

    Obvious jokes:

    1) Much better than those non-interactive whiteboards which ignored your marker completely.

    2) Does the whiteboard display advertising relevant to whatever you draw on it.

    3) "her prize was an upper case "G" of frosted glass" - when you put it in those terms, yes that prize does sound like a joke.

    1. Re:Prizes by Army+of+1+in+10 · · Score: 3, Funny
      2) Does the whiteboard display advertising relevant to whatever you draw on it.

      That's nothing that the right Firefox plugin can't handle! ;)

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  3. Disappointing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...No matrix-entrance chair, no bridge, no engineering... What kind of a starship is this googleplex?

  4. a Google bangalore saga by Gopal.V · · Score: 3, Funny

    Some guys from Yahoo Bangalore recently stalked google, apparently they came back quite unimpressed.

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  5. At least one sign... by Justen · · Score: 4, Funny

    It must be a sign that Slashdot folk are aging (and maturing, and having kids, etc.) when photos of elementary school children on a field trip is now a top story.

    justen

  6. Googleplex by jurt1235 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Isn't that the name of the new mediaplex, but than sponsored by Google? What movies do they run this weekend?

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  7. All the children drew "tm" by anzev · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's interesting to me how all the children drew the TM mark in the upper right corner of the image. I wonder... :-) Starting young I see... Maybe it's so we can say "In soviet Russia, the TM draws you in the upper right corner" :-), or "imagine a beowulf cluster of thesee"

    1. Re:All the children drew "tm" by KylePflug · · Score: 2, Funny
      If you look with your eyes, you may see that in 2 of 5 pictures, the TM is clearly done after the kids are done with the drawings.
      I'm glad you pointed that out. I'd been looking with my feet, and hadn't seen that.
  8. God help us all... by Eternal+Vigilance · · Score: 1, Funny

    God help us all if Brad & Angelina meet Jen & Vince during a tour of some new Google office space.

    "Don't cross the streams."
    "Why?"
    "It would be bad."

  9. Maddox anyone? by scrwvwls · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ir ule

  10. Re:200-man headcount? by Onymous+Hero · · Score: 1, Funny

    including allot of women

    What are you, fucking 10 or something?

  11. Re:200-man headcount? by LSD-OBS · · Score: 1, Funny

    There's hidden evidence in the pictures. Why else would there be an entire floor devoted to a toilet cleaning company unless we're talking about 200 geek men?

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