The most interesting facts about google.
Have you heard of the word GOOGLE?
Maybe there's hardly some persons whom you get to be unknown about the word google.
Google is a search engine launched in 1997 by Stanford students Larry page and Sergy Brin. For two years these students worked hard on searching and finding information on the internet.
Since those students created Google it's one of the most valuable brands in the world. Google has developed much further itself than just a search engine. Today you can navigate, Mail, watch video, upload your own video, read news, translate the languages and do much more on Google.
Google is not only the second most valuable brand of the world long before it was a go to word, it was an obedient digital dog really finding and retrieving stuff playing phase for internet users over and over again.
Here are some of the most interesting facts about the Google, of which anyone must be unknown.
There is a index of Google which consists of 3 billion websites and along with it, if anyone will print this index ,it will get a 130 miles high stack of paper. Google find outs the data and searches them through all the websites in less than half a second. Is not it amazing???
2. The original name of Google was Backrub.
Yes google is not the initial name. Backrub is the original name given by Larry page.
3. Google is a misspelling of the word: Googol
Googol, the mathematical term for a one with hundred zeros. This name would reflect the company’s mission to make all information accessible too the world. That worked out pretty well, didn't it?
4. Google was not reachable for 5 minutes in 2013.
On August 16, 2013, Google was not reachable for 5 minutes, in that time the global Internet usage was decreased by 40%.This fact shows how important Google is today. When people can not search for the website that they are looking for, people make less use of the internet
5. Yahoo the epitome of stupidity.
Google wanted in 1997 to sell their search engine system to Yahoo for $ 2 million. Yahoo didn’t accept this offer. Later, Yahoo wanted to come back to this offer and offered 3 billion in 2002. This time Google didn’t accept the offer. Today Yahoo is much less valuable as Google. I bet they feel pretty stupid right now!
6. Google’s first office was a rented garage.
Starting in September 1998, the company’s first workspace was Susan Wojcicki’s garage on Santa Margarita Ave. in Menlo Park, Calif. Wojcicki, sister of 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki, is Google employee number 16. She was Google’s first marketing manager and is now the CEO of YouTube. As for the house that built Google, the tech titan bought it, because of course it did. Then it filled the suburban ranch-style dwelling with candy, snacks and lava lamps.
7. Excite the god of misfortune
Google offered itself to online company Excite in 1999 for USD 1 million, but the CEO refused the offer. Now, Google is worth more than USD 300 billion.
8. Google helps in pronouncing massive digits if you type “=english” after searching for them in the search bar.
Yes like a government job Google also pay death penalties which guarantee that the domestic partner or surviving spouse will get 50% of their salary every year for the next decade.
10. Google has continuously been acquiring, on average, more than one company per week since 2010.
11. First doodle was burning man stick.
The very first Google Doodle introduced by the company was a Burning man stick figure, which came out on August 30, 1998.
12. The first Google computer storage was built with Legos.
13. Google owns a pet
Yes you heard right. It owns a pet named Stan, which has been placed at their California Headquarters. The intention of placing it in the office was to keep the employees reminding them to not let Google go extinct.
14. Google a good wisher.
Go to Google homepage, and type “I want to commit suicide”. It will provide the Suicide Helpline number of your country above all the searched results.
15. Google Sky maps let you view and explore more about stars, constellations, galaxies, and planets.
16. Google also works as a wedding planner.
Yes..!! you heard it right, you can also plan your special day with the help of it.
17. You can travel on Mars with Google.
You can also see the map of Mars with the help of Google Mars.
18. If you search “Atari Breakout” in Google Images, you will be able to play the game just by clicking on any of its images.
19. There is a rotated version of Google too, which is known as “Google Mirror” that shows everything in a mirrored form.
20. Google a product company.
Besides the Search Engine, Google has 250 other products, all of which have a combined user base of over a billion.
Google makes most of its revenue not through its search engine but via its advertising business.
21. Google rents goat.
The mountain view HQ of Google rents goats from California Grazing to mow their lawns and fields, as a part of their green initiative.
22. A secret tool named FOO.
Google uses a special web tool named foo. bar, by which it recruits new employees based on what they search for online. If Google sees that you're searching for specific programming terms such as Python, they might just ask you to apply for a job.
23. Larry and Sergey’s private planes have special runways in NASA, which no other plane is allowed to land.
24. GOOGLE owns misspelled.
Google owns misspelled words of its own too, like “gooogle.com”, “gogle.com”, googlr.com”.
25. Google a foodie hub.
No matter which part you’re in the Google office, you’re not more than 150 feet away from any kind of food.
26. The early days of Google were not super glamorous.
Schmidt told LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman during an interview for Hoffman’s Masters of Scale podcast that the former CEO's first office at the company was an 8-by-12-foot space that he shared with the company’s then VP of engineering, Amit Singhal.
27. The company helped fight fictional vampires.
The first instance of Google being used as a verb -- “to Google” something -- on television occurred during an Oct. 15, 2002, episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
28. Google has had a pet-friendly office since the beginning.
One of the company’s earliest employees was a friendly Leonberger named Yoshka, who came to work with his owner, Google’s senior vice president of operations Urs Hoelzle.
29. Google speaks many languages.
In 2000, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish were the first 10 language versions of the site to be available to the public.
30. Google image search launched in a big way.
The company rolled out Google Image search in 2001 with a whopping 250 million images for users to peruse. Not bad for day one.
31. When it went public, Google was valued as much as General Motors.
The company sold 19,605,052 shares of stock for $85 per share. It was valued at $27 billion.
32. Google gave Mountain View the gift of free Wi-Fi.
In 2006, the company decided to provide Mountain View, the California town where its main headquarters is located, with free city-wide Wi-Fi. While certainly generous, it likely just meant that even more people were free to jump on the web and use the search engine.
33. 33% of all searches on Google come from smartphone
It is therefore increasingly important that websites are well represented by smartphones. This year on April 21st Google officially introduced their new algorithm that measured mobile usability, which means that if you think about the smartphone usability, you’ll be higher in the Google rankings.
34. The first tweet from Google was: “I’m feeling lucky” in binary code.
Today, Google has 12.2 million followers on Twitter. If you want to stay up-to-date of all the developments in the search engine, you should follow them!
35. 16% to 20% of all searches have never been searched before on Google.
This means that Google gets millions of searches every day that have never been done before. SEO systems have to keep themselves informed of these new developments in order to remain up-to-date.
36. The Google homepage is available in 80 languages.
Because Google offers its search engine in many languages, Google is used around the world. Google translate is also available in all these 80 languages. The last nine languages that have been added are: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Somali, Zulu, Mongolian, Nepali, Punjabi, and Maori.
37. In 2014, 89% of Google’s revenue was from Google advertising.
Google currently earns the most out of SEA (Search Engine Advertising), companies can pay to stand at the top of the search results in the advertising section. SEO will get you higher in the organic results of Google. Research has shown that search engine users go rather to websites at the top of the organic results.
38. The Google search technology is called PageRank.
PageRank assigns a value of relevance to every website and determines how important a website is. PageRank is named after the co-founder of Google: Larry Page. SEO ensures you that your website will be considered as important by Google. If you’re website is considered (more) important by Google, you’re website will be higher in the rankings. Nobody on the outside knows exactly how PageRank works, which makes it quite hard to manipulate this system. This is probably the key to success, because this makes that you’ll always get the best results for you!
39. Google has about 90% of worldwide market share
Google has a market share of about 90% when it comes to search engines (Jan 2017) . You can find more statistics here.
40. On September 15, 1997 the domain Google.com was registered
And Google has registered a lot of domains after that. Besides the Google domain, it has also registered all kinds of misspellings of course
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