Google Preparing To Launch G-Town

theodp writes "The Mercury News reports that Google's aggressive online growth increasingly has a counterpart in bricks and mortar, with the company's Mountain View HQ mushrooming in the past four years to occupy more than 4 million square feet. And that's just for starters. On Silicon Valley's NASA Ames base, Google is preparing to build a new corporate campus with fitness and day care facilities and — in a first in the valley — employee housing, adding 1.2 million sqare feet to Google's real estate holdings. 'I don't want to say it's the new company town,' said commercial real estate VP Gregory M. Davies of Google's role, 'but it's not far from it.' Presumably, no anti-suicide nets will be needed for this one."

Comments

Remember the simpsons

[ivanaponte]

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Cypress_Creek

They did this already.

[fishthegeek]

HERE

Don't think I'd want to live there..

[Junta]

I don't think I could live in a town that will probably stay in beta forever.

Re:Poverty!

[postbigbang]

But you'd be happy. After all, you found your G-Spot. Tough to find, I understand.

Re:Completely Off Topic Question

[sznupi]

Hm, true (though also: lately /me semi-automatically assuming that an URL from Wiki might be non-ASCII / this one gave issues on /. recently...). At least surprise sort of fits with the content of the two above.

Re:Poverty!

[jhigh]

Dude, this is Slashdot. You just sent thousands of geeks to wikipedia to try to find out what a 'g-spot' is...

Re:"from the owe-my-soul-to-the-company-store dept

[poena.dare]

Better than being unemployed and asking, "Brother, can you spare an IPv4 address?"

Nightlife ..

[srealm]

Does that make the local nightclub the G-Spot?

Re:Nightlife ..

[PPH]

No one here can find it.

Re:Sheriff Required

[Black Gold Alchemist]

5) Willingness to be in beta for a long time
6) Ability to not be evil

Re:Poverty!

[nicknamesarefunny]

Isnt g-spot is that red spot found on Thinkpad just below the 'G' key?

Re:Sheriff Required

[Anonymous Coward]

6) Ability to not be evil (*)

(*) During second hour of job interview, the town may be overrun by test zombies.

Re:Sheriff Required

[Barryke]

(*) During second hour of job interview, the town may be overrun by test zombies.

I always wondered what name Googlers gave to unsolicited alpha testers.

( You know, the rare occasions that you see a slightly different resultspage with features that turn out to be only available to everyone several months later. )

Re:Think bigger

[Nefarious Wheel]

Indeed the corporation now wields greater power than the nation-state.

That was the theme of the Heinlein novel "Friday". Well, that and a bit of genetic engineering, but it was another bit of Heinlein forecast that came through. I wonder how much else he's got hidden ...

Honestly, love him or hate him, reading through Heinlein's novels is sometimes a bit like reading a more coherent Nostradamus, one who studied logic instead of funny mushrooms.