The trip to San Francisco as Ad-Tech sponsor has not  only been about work… as tourists we went to Googleplex thanks to Jorge Tapias who kindly received us and showed us that mini city that shelters at least 60% of more than 11,000 employees that belong to the company whose brand is the most valuable in the world.

 As soon as we got off the car we realized that it wouldn’t be hard to imagine ourselves working there. People riding bicycles, electric bikes… At the 45 building reception a girl seated in a massage chair called my attention while we registered ourselves in screen as visitors.

In an incredible sunny day Jorge invited us to have lunch in the main garden. When we entered the restaurant he told us that we could choose among a mix of different world cuisine: the typical American barbecue, Indian food, pizza, pasta, roasted meat, Mexican food, light salads, among others finishing with a drink of grass juice that tasted like grass!.

After lunch we took a walk around different buildings. A gym, a board from Kinderplex where it showed drawings from Google employees’ kids, a cafeteria with different shakes and grass juice, a reproduction of a dinosaur, a swimming pool, a parking lot with solar screen, a world map in a screen where you could see dots that indicated the search queries with different colours according to the language, Photos of the Burning Man Festival in the halls, a board with pictures of a fetishist programmer with some presidents and other world celebrities, some signs celebrating the fix week (week in which programmers dedicate to fix small details that are always loose), people walking their pets, etc.

 Anyway, a little bit of relaxing in the middle of this amazing event that is Ad-Tech that from today and until Thursday will be receiving around 10,000 people dedicated to online marketing.

 Something to note: you can breath a big concern about the environment in Googleplex, a simple example is that employees that decide to buy an ecological car, receive a subsidy form Google (good luck Toyota).

 More: 1515 pictures in  flickr