Google UK

I turn to Google when I look for things.
Things to buy, to read, to learn and to waste time on.
Google is always there for me. When I’m up and when I’m down, I turn to Google for help. And its there. It’s just always there, strong, ready to answer my questions.

Best Google office in all of London!

Ooh. Neato. Got a token man invite to attend a London Girl Geek Dinner here.

My first time at Google HQ, I was impressed to see (and taste) that the cafeteria lived up to the legends. I ate well and was just a wee bit jealous that employees here get to eat halfway decent food for free. Oh, I saw a rainbow just outside the massive windows in the dining area. Aside from that, it’s just an albeit nice and well designed place to work without much more character to distinguish it from any other office space.
The LGGD was a lot of fun. It was their 5^th anniversary. Everybody I chatted with was friendly with an interesting perspective — they were, of course, all a bit geeky too.

Fairly decent search engine. Try it!

If you are a large business, or an agency with a large account, you’ll probably visit Google’s UK Sales Office. Hosted in a shared office building, opposite Victoria Station. Corridors stuffed with geeks tuning radio controlled helicopters (or whatever the latest fad is), shirtsleeved execs preparing and presenting in the numerous meeting spaces and catering staff replenishing the kitchens in each area with fresh fruit and tasty stuff.
Google itself? What can one say in a paragraph about one of the strangest businesses on the planet. It ran for years on VC funds until discovering the cashpot of internet advertising, using smarter auction systems and larger visitor volumes than any other SE around. Still the most interesting advertising system, allowing bizarre exercises in fast market research, as well as advertising.
Personally, I think the marketing feedback that you get in hours from Google is worth more than the actual advertising system to many businesses. Want to know which messages you should be considering for a mailshot? Forget the days of arguing and digging through demographics and other research. Put a selection of adverts together and test response and conversion rates. Now. Today. Not next week.