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  1. 12-22-2010 10:26 PM #1
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    3 million square feet

    Google is down with New York City.

    So down, in fact, that the web search titan just dropped $1.9 billion to acquire one of the largest and most historic buildings in all of the Big Apple. At nearly 3 million square feet, 111 Eighth Avenue, the former Port Authority building, sits like a beached, red-brick cruise ship overlooking New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. The building is so big, in fact, that it has elevators large enough to accommodate 18-wheel semi-trucks.

    http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/google-nyc/

    All I can say is .... Go Kart Track!
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  2. 12-22-2010 11:59 PM #2
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    crazy.
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  3. 12-23-2010 09:13 AM #3
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    Fantastic. With all of this new/extra space hopefully they will also be hiring, and hiring for positions that I could fill...
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  4. 12-23-2010 10:18 AM #4
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    I know Kroz (Bix's college roommate, and dude I went to HS with) is looking to move to NYC and take a job with Google.
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    Buying a huge building is only going to increase space by what? Hopefully this will open more jobs, but google seems to be working fine the way they are. So why buy such a big building?
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  6. 01-17-2011 09:47 AM #6
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    its going to be their evil lair where they will make further plans to take over the world
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  7. 01-17-2011 11:36 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by DrTran View Post
    its going to be their evil lair where they will make further plans to take over the world
    their OTHER evil lair ..
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  8. 01-17-2011 08:08 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonKey View Post
    The building is so big, in fact, that it has elevators large enough to accommodate 18-wheel semi-trucks.
    For what purpose does Google need those?...

    World record for the most offices in an elevator!!
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  9. 01-17-2011 08:16 PM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dobby View Post
    For what purpose does Google need those?...

    World record for the most offices in an elevator!!
    Jinormous computer room ... To store SkyNet and give it room to play
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  10. 01-18-2011 02:52 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonKey View Post
    Jinormous computer room ... To store SkyNet and give it room to play
    That's infinitely less cool than my idea
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    That's a weird combination of rad' and just outright insane...

    I like it.
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  12. 01-18-2011 06:28 PM #12
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    I know, they just bought my former house!
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  13. 01-29-2011 07:36 PM #13
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    But in all seriousness, why would Google need something that big? To preserve the building? hold world records?
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  14. 01-29-2011 08:05 PM #14
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flashpantss View Post
    But in all seriousness, why would Google need something that big? To preserve the building? hold world records?
    They just owned new York!

    Biggest data center freaken anywhere
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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonKey View Post
    They just owned new York!

    Biggest data center freaken anywhere
    I just thought of why they might need a building that big. Since Google records things on tapes, since servers and databases can sometimes have faulty and corrupted information as well as lose information.

    Maybe they record and stash their tapes in that building.

    Maybe?
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  16. 03-24-2011 12:41 AM #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flashpantss View Post
    I just thought of why they might need a building that big. Since Google records things on tapes, since servers and databases can sometimes have faulty and corrupted information as well as lose information.

    Maybe they record and stash their tapes in that building.

    Maybe?
    God, I hope they aren't storing on tape .. that is a scary thought :D
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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonKey View Post
    God, I hope they aren't storing on tape .. that is a scary thought :D
    http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/03/...iref=allsearch

    about half-way down.

    "So it was a software glitch. Makes sense. But how did the company recover all of this data if the glitch traveled so widely so quickly?
    Answer: Google still stores e-mail data on tape.
    Yes, tape. Like, essentially the technology behind the cassette. Google doesn't specify what kind of tape it's using exactly, but as Seth Weintraub notes on a blog on the CNN partner site Fortune.com, using tape is a mess."
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  18. 03-27-2011 11:39 PM #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flashpantss View Post
    http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/03/...iref=allsearch

    about half-way down.

    "So it was a software glitch. Makes sense. But how did the company recover all of this data if the glitch traveled so widely so quickly?
    Answer: Google still stores e-mail data on tape.
    Yes, tape. Like, essentially the technology behind the cassette. Google doesn't specify what kind of tape it's using exactly, but as Seth Weintraub notes on a blog on the CNN partner site Fortune.com, using tape is a mess."
    Oh my .. god .. that's a painful thought.
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