Google has more than 40 offices around the world, but is there one near you? Find out using the map I created with My Maps. You can also check it out on Google Earth.
The closest Google office to me is the Ann Arbor Sales Office, that’s 183 miles (294 km) away! Do you have any luck like this guy that has a Google office in his neighborhood? Well, he used to be a Googler.

Yeah, it’s probably a copyright violation on some level, but here’s a song called “Just Google”, to the tune of Michael Jackson’s Beat It: Funny stuff.
This isn’t the first Google song. Check out “Talking About Google” and Saturday Night Live’s “Goo Goo Googling Him”.
(via Amit Agarwal)
Also, take a look at this April Fools announcement from Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone regarding A

Last Friday, Google invited “well-known spray can artist named Vulcan … to do a live painting during lunch time” at Googleplex.
“It just so happened that our new Executive Chef from Beijing—a master ice sculptor in addition to his culinary talents—was also on campus. So during lunch we had spray cans and chainsaws flying, which led to the creation of two really cool pieces.”
Haha, chainsaws flying, a bit too

“Pardon our dust while we go solar!” I didn’t get what they are trying say at first, but now I do. They are now constructing the solar panel, so it is a little dusty at the constructing site, but once they finished, several buildings at Googleplex will be all powered by solar!
From Googleplex Going Solar - October 2006:
Google Blog says they will soon start the installation of 1.6 megawatts of solar photovoltaic panels at Googl

Valleywag has put together the “25 things to see at the Googleplex before you die“.
They’ve created a plan of Google’s Mountain View location and identified the areas that any visitor should try and get a peak at.
Highlights include…

Omid Kordestani’s Office - At one point, the non-engineering parts of the Googleplex were called Omidistan, in honor of head sales guy Omid Kordestani.
Pintxo Cafe - From Yelp: “Pintxo simply rocks

Take a look at this photo by Niall Kennedy, highlighted by Valleywag:

So, not only does Google have a fake space ship, now they’ve got a fake (and very angry-looking) dinosaur. What’s next? My guess: A replica of the Titanic.

Fortune released their tenth annual list of the “100 Best Companies To Work For”, and for the first time, Google landed at the top of the list.
At Google you can enjoy free gourmet meals; do your laundry; drop off your dry cleaning; get an oil change and get a massage all onsite. Work is such a cozy place that it’s sometimes difficult for Google employees to leave the office, which is precisely how the company justifies the expenses, none of which it breaks out of its administrative costs

Google held last Friday its first Pajama Day, when workers were encouraged to wear their PJs to work. According to Robert Cringely, the event was described as a beta test for the future, and those from “cultures where pajamas are not worn” had a special exemption. Googler Kimbalina posted a photo of her PJ pants and slippers, which blended in well with the carpet.
One Googler’s wife posted a picture of herself standing with her husband, both in their PJs, him having just returned home from work

Aaron Swartz has an interesting post, one no doubt many people would disagree with, about how Google “infantilizes” their employees. The theory goes that everything in the Googleplex’s culture, including the free food, big colored balls, laundry, fake spaceships and giant dinosaurs, are all designed to prevent Googlers from growing up and getting independent, especially since they are mostly recruited out of college

Eleven photos of what it’s like to work and play in the Googleplex.