Googleplex tour - who wouldn't want to work there?

estebanrey said:
Here's my intersting Qi styled fact about Google.

Contrary to popular belief, Google's spelling is correct and the original spelling of the word. Yes, it was a deliberate mispelling of 'Googol' (a 1 followed by 100 zeroes) but that term in turn was a deliberate mispelling of Barney Google's surname. Barney Google was a comic strip character created in the 1920s.

So in this case two wrong(spelling)s do make a right :D
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I bet you googled that.
 
Merlin5 said:
I bet you googled that.
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LOL.

Actually I didn't, I was wiki'ing Barney Google after he was mentioned in a TV show I watch......

Origin of "Google"

Following "The Goo-Goo Song" (1900), the word "Google" was introduced in 1913 in Vincent Cartwright Vickers' The Google Book, a children's book about the Google and other fanciful creatures who live in Googleland: "The Google has a beautiful garden which is guarded night and day. All through the day he sleeps in a pool of water in the center of the garden; but when the night comes, he slowly crawls out of the pool and silently prowls around for food."[9] Aware of the word's appeal, DeBeck launched his comic strip six years later, and the "goo-goo-googly" lyrics in the 1923 song "Barney Google" focused attention on the novelty of the word.
When mathematician and Columbia University professor Edward Kasner was challenged in the late 1930s to devise a name for a very large number, he asked his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, to suggest a word. The youthful comic strip reader told Kasner to use "Google". Kasner agreed, and in 1940, he introduced the words "googol" and "googolplex" in his book, Mathematics and the Imagination. Milton Sirotta died in 1980.[10][11] This is the term that Larry Page and Sergey Brin had in mind when they named their company in 1998, but they intentionally misspelled "googol" as "google," bringing it back full circle to Vickers' form. In 2002, when Page set up a scanning device at Google to test how fast books could be scanned, the first book he scanned was Vickers' The Google Book.
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All the above, people saying 50hr weeks is nothing etc., is why I chose to work for the family aware company that I did. 35 hrs pw, encouraged to try not to work more than that if possible. Do 8.30 - 4.30 every day, back by five to spend a good four hours with my wife and kids every day.

Industry: financial services. Love it.
 
After finishing college in June and still unemployed they could have my soul if I got to work in a place like that
 
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