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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."
Last time I was there (to scope it out for a potential scout event), I believe that all I had to show was a valid ID, such as a driver's license, to get through the main gate and onto the Moffet field campus.
It's not just about click tracking by Google, it's about having some idea about where the link I'm about to click on will take me.
Even without slashdot's anti-troll inclusion of domain names, you can mouse over a link to see what the actual URL is. But what is "QTRlo" and "rRDok"? Is it something that's going to get me fired? Should I not have eaten before clicking? Is it another "N guys/girls, 1 X" shock site, or an 80's one-hit wonder?
If you know how to use HREF tags and aren't artificially constrained to 140 characters, use the proper URL. Please.