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Today I got an email from my boss that our group will be attending a tour of Google here in New York. Curious as to where the Google office is, I habitually went to google.com and decided to Google Google. "Hey wait," I thought, "what happens when you Google Google?"

Well, you should try it. Oddly enough, google.com comes up as the first result. Isn't that what they call circular logic? I would imagine that one could go insane just clicking on the result for google.com every time they Googled Googled. Fortunately for me, though, I caught on to the tricky tricks of Google and did not click on result numero uno.

The next result is slightly more helpful - the Wikipedia (ps LOVE Wikipedia even more than Google) entry for Google. This article is full of fascinating information on Google, such as the fact that there were 15,916 employees at Google as of September 30 and that the hallways at the Googleplex are full of exercise balls. However, the Wikipedia article still did not have the information that set me on my quest in the first place - where Google's New York office is located.

I hit the Back button and was right back where I started...the Google homepage with a list of Google sites. I scrolled through my choices: Google Video, Google News, google.org ("the philanthropic arm of the company"), Google Image, Google Maps, Google Groups. All lovely information that I use all day, every day and am actually quite enamored with. But still no listing with Google's address.

Finally, after getting to the bottom of the page just past Google Code, I discovered what I was looking for - the "About Google" link at the bottom of the page (which is actually always at the bottom of google.com no matter what you Google). After some surfing through the "About Google" site, I discovered what I was looking for all along - a link entitled "Addresses."

In case you are curious, Google is located at 76 Ninth Ave. (Cross street 16th St. Thanks Google Maps!)

And that's what happens when you try to Google Google.