1. Google started as a Research Project at Stanford university by two students namely Larry page and Sergey Brin in January 1996. At that time Page was 24 years old and Brin was 23 years old.
2. The search engine that Page and Brin were collaborating on was originally called BackRub, named for its ability to analyze the "back links" pointing to a given Web site.
3. Google derived its name from the word 'googol' which is a mathematical term meaning 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. It was actually a spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for 'googol'. The word was chosen to reflect the company's goal of organizing the massive amound of information that is available on the Internet.
4. The first Google Doodle was the Burning Man doodle to mark the Burning Man festival in Nevada in 1998. However, the very first Google Doodle was basically designed as a kind of "out of office" message.
5. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Google Copyright message was inserted later to act as a crude end of page marker due to the sparseness of the homepage.
6. Google users apparently never feel "lucky," since the infamous "I feel lucky" is almost never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience as the users wanted it kept. So it remained as a comfort button.
7. One of the biggest leap in search usage came about when they introduced their much improved spell checker. This improved gave birth to the “Did you mean…” feature. Google's traffic almost doubled as they introduced the feature.
8. The Google logo wasn't actually centered on the page until March 31, 2001.
9. When Google was started it indexed around 25,000 pages. Now it is indexing some billions of pages. Google is processing over 20 petabyte of information daily.
10. The first Google storage was made from LEGO. Google's first data center was Larry Page's dorm room. Today, Google consists of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.
11. Google became the world's largest search engine in the year 2010. For the Smooth operation Google uses over 1 million computers and handles over 1 billion requests per day.
12. Gmail was used internally for nearly two years prior to its launch to the public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.
13. Google's first ever Twitter post, sent in February 2009, reads "I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010." It means "I'm feeling lucky."
14. Daily more than 700 million visitors visit the Google.com
15. Most of the revenue about 97% is coming to Google by their advertising services. Total Google assets in the year 2010 was $57.851 billion Dollars.
16. Google rents goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ.
2. The search engine that Page and Brin were collaborating on was originally called BackRub, named for its ability to analyze the "back links" pointing to a given Web site.
3. Google derived its name from the word 'googol' which is a mathematical term meaning 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. It was actually a spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for 'googol'. The word was chosen to reflect the company's goal of organizing the massive amound of information that is available on the Internet.
4. The first Google Doodle was the Burning Man doodle to mark the Burning Man festival in Nevada in 1998. However, the very first Google Doodle was basically designed as a kind of "out of office" message.
5. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Google Copyright message was inserted later to act as a crude end of page marker due to the sparseness of the homepage.
6. Google users apparently never feel "lucky," since the infamous "I feel lucky" is almost never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience as the users wanted it kept. So it remained as a comfort button.
7. One of the biggest leap in search usage came about when they introduced their much improved spell checker. This improved gave birth to the “Did you mean…” feature. Google's traffic almost doubled as they introduced the feature.
8. The Google logo wasn't actually centered on the page until March 31, 2001.
9. When Google was started it indexed around 25,000 pages. Now it is indexing some billions of pages. Google is processing over 20 petabyte of information daily.
10. The first Google storage was made from LEGO. Google's first data center was Larry Page's dorm room. Today, Google consists of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.
11. Google became the world's largest search engine in the year 2010. For the Smooth operation Google uses over 1 million computers and handles over 1 billion requests per day.
12. Gmail was used internally for nearly two years prior to its launch to the public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.
13. Google's first ever Twitter post, sent in February 2009, reads "I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010." It means "I'm feeling lucky."
14. Daily more than 700 million visitors visit the Google.com
15. Most of the revenue about 97% is coming to Google by their advertising services. Total Google assets in the year 2010 was $57.851 billion Dollars.
16. Google rents goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ.
