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Even by Silicon Valley standards, life at Google is ridiculously cool. The 120 employees at the two-story office block off Route 101 known as the Googleplex have everything a well-to-do West Coaster could wish for: full-time masseuse, yoga classes, all the Ben and Jerry bars they can eat and organic catering by the guy who used to do meals for the Grateful Dead. The only table in the boardroom is for Ping-Pong. There's pool, shuffleboard, two pianos, twice-weekly hockey games, K'nex models for the nerd set--which is everyone--and even...
...there's one thing in the Googleplex that's cooler and more popular than free ice cream, it's the company's product (found, of course, at google.com) The brainchild of Stanford University pals Larry Page, 27, and Sergey Brin, 26, Google is the Web's largest and hippest search engine. In just two years it has gained a reputation for uncanny speed and accuracy, delivering exactly what you're looking for in a fraction of a second. The site now does this 40 million times a day--not quite a googol (10100, which is 1 followed by 100 zeroes...
...Great Googleplex...
...realize how many of the nation's transport troubles originate in Washington. Ever since 1887, when the Interstate Commerce Act first fastened rate control on railroads, legislators have been piling law upon law and agency upon agency without considering the total effect. The result is a great googleplex: hundreds of federal, state and local authorities that, oblivious of one another, spend $17 billion a year of taxpayers' money to work at purposes that often cross. Washington, for example, doled out $66 million in subsidy to feeder airlines last year, helping them to serve cities as little...