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By Marziah Karch, About.com

Definition: The Googleplex is the Google corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California. The name is a play on "googolplex." A googolplex is the number one followed by a googol zeros, and the name Google is a play on the word googol.

The Googleplex name could also be seen as a combination of the words "Google" and "Multiplex."

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