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Google Montreal mystery finally solved

By Heri Sep 18th 2007 in Design

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There was previously a small “controversy” on an earlier post if whether Google had offices in Montréal or not. I just had confirmation from Denis Canuel who went downtown and their address is 24th floor, suite 2449, 1000 de la Gauchetiere.

Now, it seems I wasn’t wrong either. The 24th floor of the building is in fact a virtual office area, in which multinational corporations can rent blocks of space and time, or for early stage companies who want an address to impressreceive their business partners.

In this case, Denis Canuel saw they were shared with Yahoo! and other companies, who worked in the same space with Google developers.

Thanks Denis!

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Comments

  • William Robert September 18, 2007

    I know a guy who work there, who is a developer. he will be in conference in HEC Montreal next november, theorically.

  • Fred Brunel September 19, 2007

    I’m wondering what they are doing in Montreal. According to their job position it’s like software development for Windows.

  • Eric September 19, 2007

    Interesting that, with all of the office space in Montreal, both Yahoo! and Google chose to share office space in the same building, on the same floor! I wonder what the employees talk about to each other when they share the elevator to go down to lunch!

  • Heri September 19, 2007

    fred brunel and Eric: unfortunately, it’s impossible to know what they are working on. you can’t go in without an appointement, the reception is tight-lipped about what each company is doing, and there is no email or phone number avalaible to get in touch someone.

  • Fred Brunel September 19, 2007

    Weird.

  • Mat September 19, 2007

    No, it’s not impossible to know what they’re working on.

    They’re working on Google Desktop. I’ve said it here before.

    Same sources that provided me with the address.

  • Saïd Sekour October 13, 2008

    Google Montreal & yahoo! Montreal
    Je pense qu’il n’y a plus rien a cacher, tellement que c’est “Open source” , nous connaissaons tous les futures strategies de Google , ou Yahoo (qui n’arrivera jamais a ratrapper Google).

    Les deux models economique sont opposés , Google se concentre plus “contenu” que “contenant” et donne la liberté aux interfaces “UI” , avec une reflexion hors du cummun.

    Quoique avec les obstacles et bloquages techniques causé par le monopole de Microsoft, Google retrouve obligé de revenir en arriere pour casser Microsoft et son commerce qui ne fait que retarder l’innovation, donc google donne vie a Android , qui est a mon avis la premiere ame des future robot. Android est OS qui va commencer a envahir tout type de MID (Mobile Internet Device) appelés “telephones” ou alors “small screens”, puis cette ame va s’installer sur n’importe quel type de device , en commençant par les PC (Desktop, laptop …) tout type d’ecran (projecteur de données) small screens, large screens … Puis tout type d’objet qui est capable d’embarquer une ame (OS) .

    Pour tester le plus possible gagnant , google doit investir plus dans le satellite broadband , pour realiser le model “content anywhere” , les machines intelligentes vont être prete , il ne reste que l’acces , google ne va pas attendre les operateur actuels, leur commerce allourdi l’innovation et la retarde.

    Donc, oui yahoo! est un moteur de recherche, mais Google l’est plus depuis le Web 2.0 et depuis Gmail aussi (SSO).

    Les bureau de google Montreal ne sont pas suffisant pour assumer toute ses recherche dans le domaine de l’intelligence des objets , a mon avis et après ma visite a leur espace, je dirais que c’est un bureau de liaison pour tout ce qui est communication medias.

    A bientot et merci pour ce merceilleux weblog!

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