What are some amazing facts about Google ?
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Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:21 pm
.”Google knows more about you than your mother” these are words quoted by a critic
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Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:21 pm
.Larry Page and Sergey Brin together own 16 percent of its shares, who founded Google while they were Ph.D. Students at Stanford University on September 4, 1998.
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Google acquires its name from the word “googol“ — a mathematical term representing one followed by 100 zeros. It signifies the search engine’s capacity to offer access to the enormous information over the Internet
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BlackRub” is the nick name given by the founders to the search engine, They changed it to Google, originated by misspelling the word “googol”.
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Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:22 pm
z.stanford.edu and google.stanford.edu are the names with which Google ran at Stanford School of Engineering which is an attempt to analyze and catalog the world wide web.
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Larry Page’s web page at Stanford was the first link indexed by Google.
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Craig Silverstein currently serves as the director of technology at Google, who is the first employee of Google Inc.’s hired in September 1998.
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Stanford University holds the patent to “PageRank“, the algorithm of Google, which is a method to measure the importance of a site. Google handed it over 1.8 million shares of its company to gain the exclusive rights of the patent.
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Sun Microsystems co-founder, Andy Bechtolsheim, was the first investor of Google, who initially invested $100k in Google during August 1998.
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.Google made its first Google Doodle in the year 1999.
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The Original Google Storage, i.e., the first storage of Google, was built of 10 4GB hard drives cased using Legos, totaling to 40GB. It was used to store the search engine’s indexed data during the early days of Google
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The concept of the doodle was born even before the company was incorporated.
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Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:23 pm
Google launched its first homepage in 1998 with an exclamation mark like that of “Yahoo!” after a year of registering its domain name “google.com”.
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Sat Jan 12, 2019 5:23 pm
There are more than 1000 doodles created by the team called doodlers in Google.They are talented illustrators who work hard to bring smiles on faces of people who visit the homepage.
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Google’s first doodle was a stick figure drawing placed behind the second ‘o’ of “Google” indicating the “out of office” message on the day of “Burning Man Festival”. It was published on August 30, 1998, on Google’s homepage
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As part of their green initiative, Google regularly rents goats to mow the lawns of their mountain view HQ
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.Google translate could translate more than 80 languages.
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MentalPlex, the mind reading ability to search, was the Google’s first hoax for April Fools’ Day. It invited users to stare at an animated image and asked them to project a mental picture of what they wish to search on Google.
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Google was declared the best search engine in June 2000, in a search and portal site tracking research done by NPD, an independent research company.
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.Google’s annual income is greater than 50 billion dollars.
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Thanks to Google Instant, you can't actually use the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button anymore
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Yahoo! declined Google’s offer for infusion of cash, and later in 2002, Yahoo! wanted to buy it for $3 billion, but this time, Google refused it.
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Since 2010, Google has been acquiring an average of one company every week
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Google’s first tweet was “I’m Feeling Lucky” in the binary code, which is the two-symbol (0 and 1) data representation system used in computers.
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Google uses a web tool called foo.bar to recruit new employees based on what they search for online
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