Googleplex

Mountain View headquarters

Googleplex is Google's corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California.

The name plays on googol (the number 10 to the 100th power) and googolplex (10 to the googol power), while also suggesting a complex of buildings.

The campus houses thousands of employees and has become synonymous with Silicon Valley tech culture: She landed an internship at the Googleplex.

headquarters

campus

Institutional grounds and buildings

headquarters · California · office · employees · cafeteria · shuttle · perks · nap pods · Android · building

mathematical

googol

Ten to the hundredth

number · large number · notation · mathematics · trillion · billion · infinity · digits · scientific notation · magnitude

architecture

futuristic

Suggestive of times ahead

solar panels · glass · open plan · colorful · quirky · sculpture · landscaping · eco-friendly · LEED · modern

Opposites
corporate prestige/tech prominence

Googleplexhome office

Residential work area

workplace culture and environment

Googleplexsweatshop

Exploitative manufacturing workplace

cubicle farm · factory floor · coal mine · assembly line · call center

magnitude/scale

Googleplexzero

Numerical absence of quantity

nothing · infinitesimal · one · epsilon · naught

Family

complex, Google

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G