Google is massive company with more than 40,000 employees and has crafted a culture of Googlers who speak the same language. To outsiders, the language used by employees of the internet company might sound like jibberish, but within the company, the Google dialect is second-nature
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#1 Gayglers
Members of the LGBT community (and their supporters) are known as Gayglers.
#2 Stan
In the Googleplex, you'll meet "Stan" Google's own T-Rex. The statue is there to remind the company to never become a dinosaur, or at least that's one theory behind it.
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#3 Greyglers
Greyglers are Google employees 40 and older (although we'll guess some of those in their forties aren't sporting grey hairs). One of Google's most prominent Greyglers is their chief internet evangelist (and one of the fathers of the web) Vint Cerf
#4 TGIF
It does mean "Thank God It's Friday" but it also is the name of the weekly all-hands meeting confusingly, now held on Thursdays. The hour-long meeting dates back to the early days of Google, but is now held in a worldwide Google hangout. It's also where Nooglers receive their hats.
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#5 GBike
The mode of transportation on Google's campus, the GBike is known for its colourful frame. If you visit campus, you can even catch a glimpse of the conference room bike
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#6 Xoogler
Once a Google employee leaves the company, they become a Xoogler. A shortened version of ex-Googler, Xoogler is actually pronounced "zoo-gler." Some have credited Google employee #59, Doug Edwards, as inventing the term Xoogler. His blog was one of the first to coin the term.
