Which sounds better: the Google headquarters or Google's headquarters? [closed]

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Which sounds better: the Google headquarters or Google's headquarters?

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Are you comparing 'the Google headquarters' to 'Google's headquarters' or you are concerned with Google or Google's. While I hope the use of the definite article is clear, I think the question is about 'Google' or 'Google's, i.e. whether or not to use an apostrophe there.

You can drop the apostrophe 's' as 'Google' is serving there as an attributive noun. An attributive noun is a noun that modifies another noun serving as an adjective.

As a side note, maybe useful, you can also drop the apostrophe if the noun itself ends with 's'. For instance, the United States government.