On Feb. 12, while he was walking on the campus, he met up with a job applicant who had an interview in Google's lobby 43.

"So I followed him into his lobby and he let me talk to the receptionist, and then I went up and introduced myself to her and told her I was in town for a few days, and I was hoping to have a chance to talk to someone about a business idea I had and could I set up an appointment," Stanton said.

The receptionist, however, told Stanton that it is not permitted to just walk in and set up a meeting, and that he had to fill out a form on the Internet to request one. Unwilling to give up easily, Stanton went to a few more building lobbies on campus and asked for a meeting, but was summarily turned away by each receptionist.

He drove back to a friend's house where he was staying and decided to do what the Google receptionists told him to do. He was also prepared to just sit in their lobby and wait, if necessary.

"So I went home and submitted my Flash presentation to their site," Stanton said, "so I could go back and sit in their lobby and if anyone asked me what I was doing there, I would tell them that I just wanted to let somebody know that there was a presentation waiting for them online and to go find it and watch it, and decided whether or not it was worthwhile to go talk to me about it."