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It shouldn’t be much longer before the name “Mountain View” becomes absolutely synonymous with the term “Googleplex” - a new report indicates that Google is going to lease a fresh 310,000 square feet of space.

Fans have flocked by the millions to theatres worldwide to take in the first two installments of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise. While Captain Jack Sparrow is enjoying the spotlight, however, the film studios are turning their attention and ire toward pirates of another sort.

What a busy day! Up at 4:30am to catch a flight from Raleigh to San Jose. Pick-up the rental car and head straight to Google's offices, aka "the Googleplex".

Next week there will be a "must listen" SEO Rockstars and Daily SearchCast show on WebmasterRadio.fm.

After being a media piata over the course of the week, Google has come back firing at its critics, led by a lengthy post by its senior policy counsel, Andrew McLaughlin.

It's not all algorithms and Ajax in the search engine business; Yahoo's map team found some time to playfully poke Google while building the latest beta of Yahoo Maps.

Understandably, Microsoft is playing hardball with Google's countersuit regarding the legitimacy Kai-Fu Lee's non-compete agreement by working to disallow Google a home field advantage in California court. California laws do not recognize non-compete agreements, which is the basis for the countersuit, and Microsoft has asked that the case be taken up by a federal court instead.

Hear me! For I have been to the mountaintop Tuesday night's SES mixer in San Jose was highly anticipated by most attendees. It was, after all, the Google Dance -being held at the Googleplex no less. At roughly 6:30, the tour busses started to line up outside the main convention center to begin shuttling attendees to the land of the giant. Needless to say, I think everyone went.