Google to search Mars before Microsoft

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Google to search Mars before Microsoft.

Google was expected to announce plans Wednesday to build a new 1-million-square foot corporate campus at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, according to a published report.

Google, the internet's leading search company, is expected to build on NASA property at a now-vacant site in the heart of Silicon Valley, which will include offices, housing and roads, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, citing unidentified sources. (from Area51)

"There is some land at Ames Research Center that could offer logical expansion space for Google,'' company spokeswoman Lynn Fox said Tuesday. She declined to comment directly on the building plans.

The company has scheduled an afternoon news conference with Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and Scott Hubbard, director at NASA Ames, a space research center since 1939 that has recently been cutting staff as part of the agency's nationwide restructuring.

Rapid growth in web advertising tied to online searches has fueled Google's stellar performance in recent years. The company has $7 billion in cash from stock offerings and huge profits. It hired 10 employees each business day in the last quarter and has a global staff of nearly 4,200.

Some observers say the partnership between Google and NASA Ames could create a new hub of technological innovation in Silicon Valley..

The new facility would be larger than filmmaker George Lucas' new complex in San Francisco's Presidio and nearly as big as the 52-story office tower in the Bank of America Center in San Francisco's Financial District.

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dont u just love google? i cant wait to see what they come out with next, "google mars". lol