Inside Google's London Complex

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."

Comments

200-man headcount?

[essence]

only men work there? no? how hard is it to say 200 person? come on.

Re:200-man headcount?

[aussie_a]

Wow, get over yourself. Most English speakers have a male bias in their speech. Deal. It's this sort of political correction that drives me up the wall.

Re:200-man headcount?

[Anonymous Coward]

Completely and while we are at it lets standardize on a world language, and make everything politically correct so that we can accost the non-adopters. I bet if you petition long enough it might be a crime to disagree.

Once again quit nitpicking, you get angry over simple laziness. How about getting over something that truly matters, like the salary gap in genders, or workplace sexual harassment and accept man as a non gender specific term for those to lazy to write out person. Focus on the issues, not the labels.

Re:200-man headcount?

[gihan_ripper]

I completely agree with your comment. As a (male) professional mathematician, I see outrageous overt sexism in the academic commmunity, but whenever anyone suggests the use of gender-neutral terms they are often lambasted (largely by the older generation) as politally correct weenies.

The point that many science geeks completely fail to realize is that 'labels' are important. Our use of language deeply affects our relationship with the world and the manner in which we perceive our environment and fellow human beings.

At a certain very old university, I've known a number of mathematicians who were extremely distressed by the display of a "Men of Mathematics" poster. Yes, our current use of the English language allows us to describe any collection of workers as male, but this is an anachronism, harking back to a time when only men did "real" work. In the same manner, it used to be commonplace, well into the 20th century, to refer to someone who drove a hard bargain as a Jew. Now tell me is it mere 'political correctness' which prevents us from using the word Jew in this way, or is it that we have become a more enlightened species?

Re:200-man headcount?

[Anonymous Coward]

how hard is it to say 200 person?

If you say 200 person, some politically-correct-nazi will jump out at you, and chasticize you for not saying 200 perdaughter.

Re:200-man headcount?

[koekepeer]

"Now tell me is it mere 'political correctness' which prevents us from using the word Jew in this way, or is it that we have become a more enlightened species?"

if you were truly enlightened, would it even affect you if someone called someone else a jew? why do, in issues of (presumed) discrimination/racism, people invariably assume the worst in other people? maybe because we *all* are prejudiced?

methinks a better way to increase the peace is to stop assuming and projecting our own prejudice onto others. works a heck of a lot better than pointing the finger and saying "you are bad because you are prejudiced". this while, in fact, you are saying: "you are bad because you just said something i associate with being prejudiced", revealing your own prejudice in the process. hypocrisy invokes conflict. understanding and acceptation creates peace.

Re:200-man headcount?

[ggy]

Hmm... It's a building full of geeks. So I'd say the chances are quite good! ;)

Since when...

[mulhall]

...is a picture of an office block news?

Re:Hmm

[Anonymous Coward]

its an algorithim.. do you really think Google has enough man power to search the entire internet for images and index them on a regular basis?