Adam Turtle, Freelance Web Design in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Since1986
Google Dance
- 21st August, 2007
- filed under: San Francisco, Web stuff
- 2 comments
SES Conference
Today I went down to San Jose with my boss Rodrigo and Colin. We were going to the Search Engine Strategies conference to get tips on how to increase our company websites’ searchability on the major search engines. It was a good conference and I picked up loads of great advice, not to mention a bag load of free stuff like tshirts, alarms clocks and sweets. Probably the best part of the conference was the free AOL lunch. Full three course meal at the expense of AOL, the only catch being we had to sit through some boring guy’s presentation on mobile devices. They also gave away three iPhones which was nice of them. To be honest, I was enjoying my cheesecake too much to even notice what was going on.
Google Dance
Undoubtedly the best part of the day was the Google Dance. It’s held every year at the Googleplex in Mountain View which is a short drive from San Jose. It was probably the best party I’ve ever been to.
Google spare absolutely no expense. We’re talking many millions of dollars to pay for this party. There were thousands at, all enjoying the free food, candy, drinks, ice cream…EVERYTHING was free! Even the party itself is 100% free. They even provided a shuttle from the conference to the Googleplex. For a start the Googleplex itself is an awesome place. Google are probably the best employer in the world. Employees work hard but they are very handsomely rewarded. Among the perks of working at Google are: massages, 12 cafeterias, pool tables, a gym, haircuts, two swimming pools, beach volleyball…the list goes on and needless to say that everything is free. Including all the food you can eat. They’ve also got cool bicycles and motorized scooters for the employees to get about. It’s awesome!
The party itself was brilliant. They had free dinner, pick n mix, snow cones and karaoke on bluescreen. There was a massive party inside and out with some brilliant DJ’s. I normally get irritated by dance music but these guys were fantastic. What a place. Plus I thought it would be a huge party for nerds but it turns out that most of the good looking girls in California work in Silicon Valley. It really was some party. And best of all I got another free tshirt out of it. So a whole day out, two slap up meals, industry expertise and a mad party. And it didn’t cost a penny. Nice.
I wanna work for Google….!!!! Do they have any vacancies for Quantity Surveyors do you think!!
you can take the man outta ballymena, but you cant take the ballymena outta the man, you scrounger.. lol