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Google, which is the finest & best search engine in the world, not only that but Google is mostly a “one stop shop” for every internet user… More over Google is an unconventional company which comes with huge stake in our online lives, but what does the word GOOGLE really mean, how does it looked in past, what's their first tweet… In this post i wish to share 10 amazing and interesting facts about Google which amazed me and i hope they do the same to you too…
1) Who created Google???
Google was created at Stanford University by two Ph.D students called Larry Page(24 years old) and Sergey Brin(23 years old)
2)What does GOOGLE mean???
In simple GOOGLE is a play of word GOOGOL, which refers to “Number 1 followed by 100 zeros”. Actually this popular term was obtained from a book called "Mathematics and the Imagination" written by Kasner and James Newman. The term GOOGLE instantly reflects the companies mission to organize the huge amount of information/data available on the web.
3) How does Google looked in past???
This is how it looked in 1998, isn’t it cute. Actually Google logo and other things on homepage aren’t centered until 2001.
4)Google’s first computer storage was made of LEGO
Yes!!! Google’s first computer storage was made from LEGO, way back in 1996 while Google is still a research project called BackRub, Larry and Brin needed a large storage to test the algorithm but the largest hard disk available at those days are just 4 GB so they bought 10 four GB hard disks and assembled them together. Now they needed a house for their newly built computer storage with futures like easily expandable and cheap cost and LEGO(also called as building bricks) met their requirements.
5) Google’s first Doodle
Google is famous for their Doodles(Change of the Google logo on some special occasions) which is enjoyed by millions of users around the world. But do you know the first ever Doodle…
This Doodle was made by the Google guys it self, back in 1998, when Larry and Brin went out for a festival called “Burning Man Festival” and that gave the inspiration to make the fist ever doodle.
6) Google’s First Tweet
Google’s first tweet was a good one and made in a geeky way!!! Do you know what does “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010” mean, It’s a famous word, that is “I’m feeling lucky”
7) Dog’s are allowed at Google
Yes, Dog’s are allowed at Google because they are super dog friendly… They named their first dog as Yoshka which came to work with Google's first VP of Engineering Urs Hölzle and became the company's "first" dog. According to Google’s Dog policy “No dog’s with aggressive behavior or any other behavior which distracts or disturbs the work should stay at home”.
The funny thing is, Cat’s are not allowed at Google because… Here is an exact line from Google’s code of conduct.
“Google’s affection for our canine friends is an integral facet of our corporate culture. We like cats, but we’re a dog company, so as a general rule we feel cats visiting our offices would be fairly stressed out.”
8) How many severs does Google have???
To be frank no body know it exactly and Google ain’t talking about it. This is pic of Googleville which is a data center for Google in The Dallas, Small Oregon town.
9) I’m Feeling Lucky Costs $110 Million a Year
I’m feeling lucky, when a search query entered and pressed takes user directly to the first web page result. But mostly user are not using and it costs $110 million a year.
So somebody asked why keep it? then Marisa Mayer who is vice president of search and user interference said:
You know Larry and Sergey had the view, and I certainly share it, that it's possible just to become too dry, too corporate, too much about making money. And you know what I think is really delightful about Google and about the "I'm Feeling Lucky," is that they remind you that the people here have personality and that they have interests and that there is real people.
10) Google has a Dinosaur
Google headquarters which is called as Googleplex has amazing and wondrous sights to be seen like enormous Android-themed models, pink flamingos, a large LEGO man, Google-colored phone boxes and grown-up size ball pits etc…, but the most arresting one is the big T-Rex skeleton, nicknamed “Stan” after a “real” dinosaur found near Googleplex.
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