seattlepi.nwsource.com — Google continues to expand in Microsoft's backyard. The Internet search giant, which opened a sales office in Fremont three months ago and a development center in Kirkland in 2004, is now taking a serious look at gobbling up nearly all of a 20-story office building under construction in downtown Bellevue.
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rambleAug 26, 2006
So they'll be geographically closer?Who cares? AMD and Intel are basically next door to each other.
Closed AccountAug 26, 2006
No it doesn't. Google and Microsoft are not playing the same game first of all. No matter how much you desperattely want to believe that Google is poised to compete with MS in anything except the search engine, it is not going to happen.Google is not considering buying this building because it is near MS, and Bill Gates hasn't let this news enter his brain for even one millionth or a second.
technonerdAug 26, 2006
I think the city you're talking about may be Sammamish or Renton. I live in this area as well, and I think it could become interesting.
ratbearAug 26, 2006
There is a rendering posted at the construction site of the building that Google is considering. It is hideous in my opinion. We'll see, sometimes renderings look worse than the actual building. There are twin 42 story condo towers going up pretty much across the street at the same time, so some of them could walk to work in less than a minute if they wanted to. Microsoft is actually leasing around 20 floors or so of a tower under construction a few blocks north, to house their sales division.
wackytAug 26, 2006
Who cares? Unless they're moving closer to Microsoft because of a potential merger. I think Google would be a good upgrade to MSN Search, don't you?
gd007Aug 26, 2006
google can take away microsoft employees more easily. just attended a interview at google during lunch break. no need to vacation or use the sick leave.
smohan123Aug 26, 2006
"I want to be careful, but at the same time I don't know how you keep an elephant walking through town a secret," he said. "But that is (Google's) intent."Hilarious.I wonder what M$'s response will be...
toddbuAug 27, 2006
With a tower that tall, probably lots of jobs for cleaning people.
lar5pAug 28, 2006
Microsoft already has an office in Mountain View, just a few blocks from The Googleplex. They may have been there first, I don't know. Plenty of Google employees, including myself, bike across their parking lot for their commute, but I don't think there have been any incidents.