What are some amazing facts about Google ?

Google Rents Goats To Maintain The Grounds Of Its California Headquarters

. Sun Microsystems co-founder, Andy Bechtolsheim, was the first investor of Google, who initially invested $100k in Google during August 1998.

Since 2009, Google has replaced lawnmowers with a herd of 200 goats to maintain the lawns at its Mountain View HQ. Google hires the goats for about a week at a time, allowing them to graze on the grass, clear the weeds, and fertilise the grounds.

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.

Dan Hoffman, director of real estate and workplace services at Google California, claims it costs about the same as mowing, adding, “Goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawnmowers.”

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”.

No Part Of A Google Office Is More Than 150 Feet Away From Food

8. 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.

Google’s employee perks are pretty well known (and envied). We’ve heard about the nap pods and the on-site gyms, but being served breakfast, lunch and dinner every day for free? That’s a perk we could sink our teeth into.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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.

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, and was formally incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998.

You know there's more to something than meets the eye when such a massively successful company has such a simple layout though, and I mean that in the best way possible. Google has always done things a little bit differently, and that works to keep things fresh, immersive and consistently progressive.

The name 'Google' is actually derived from the mathematical term 'googol' which is basically 1 with a 100 zeros following it

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.

Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally named Google 'Backrub'

PAC-MAN became Google’s first ever playable doodle on May 21, 2010, for the day being the 30th anniversary of the arcade game.

As part of their green initiative, Google regularly rents goats to mow the lawns of their mountain view HQ

Google’s team of designers and illustrators have produced more than 2000 doodles for Google’s homepage since its first launch in August 1998.

Thanks to Google Instant, you can't actually use the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button anymore

Alphabet Inc. is the parent company of Google, which was founded in 2015 with the desire to separate its web services business from its other ambitious companies. Its name speaks of “alpha” as “an investment that returns above the benchmark”, suggesting the company as a great opportunity.

'Google Instant' starts searching for whatever you type as soon as you type it, thereby leaving no time or possibility to click that button. The 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button apparently cost the company $110 million every year, because it would bypass all ads to go to the top search immediately.

Alphabet Inc. is a public holding company with “abc.xyz” as its website. Its founders did not have much of a choice because “alphabet.com” was taken, so they ended up with “abc.xyz”. I find it is a good domain name for a company named “Alphabet” as alphabets run from “a, b, c, …” to “x, y, and z”.

Since 2010, Google has been acquiring an average of one company every week