Interesting facts about Google

Interesting facts about Google 

1. Google started in January, 1996 as a research project
at Stanford University, by Larry Page and
Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and
23 years old respectively.
2. The name Google was an accident. A spelling
mistake made by the original founders who
thought they were going for Googol.
3. Google consists of over 450,000 servers,
racked up in clusters located in data centers
around the world.
4. The infamous “I’m feeling lucky” button is
nearly never used. However, in trials it was
found that removing it would somehow reduce
the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It
was a comfort button.
5. 57% of American kids say ‘Google’ as their
first word.
6. 620 million visitors visit Google.com daily.
7. Google has a world-class staff of more than
2,668 employees known as Googlers. The
company headquarters is called the Googleplex.
8. Google’s index of web pages is the largest in
the world, comprising of billions of web pages.
Google searches this immense collection of web
pages often in less than half a second.
9. When Google introduced their improved
spell checker seen as “Did you mean ? ”, it
doubled their traffic and soon the developers
discovered that the ideal placement was at the
bottom of the search results.
10. There isn’t any restriction for proper dress
code in the Google office. This may include
pajamas and even super hero costumes.
11. In August 2004, Google went public with
opening shares at $85 per share. Google stated
that during its IPO, it hoped to raise as much
as $2,718,281,828, which is the first 10 digits
of the mathematical constant “e.” It raised
$1.67 billion.
12. According to Alexa (“The Web Information
Company”), Google is the Internet’s most
visited website globally.
13. The late Steve Jobs said he would be willing
to “go thermonuclear war” against Google, a
company he thought was guilty of “grand theft”
when it launched its Android operating system.
14. Google’s tradition of April Fool’s jokes
began in April 2000 when Google announced
the “MentalPlex,” or Google’s ability to read a
person’s mind as he visualizes the search
results he wants.
15. If you use Google Calendar, Google may
also know your schedule, what books you’ve
read on Google Books, and what videos you
watch on YouTube. They also save all your
search queries, your IP address, your browser
and its set language, the date and time of every
request, your SMS messages, the cookies used
for advertising services, and third-party
application data. According to one critic,
“Google knows more about you than your
mother."
16. Reluctant to leave school to devote time to
their new search engine, Page and Brin
attempted to sell google.com for $1 million to
AltaVista. Fortunately for them, Alta Vista
passed . . . as did Yahoo!, Excite, and other
search engines.
17. Google’s first-ever Twitter post was in
February 2004. It was binary for “I’m feeling
lucky.
18. A Google employee is named a “Googler”
while a new team member is called a “Noogler.
19. Google makes 99% of its profit from its
advertising.
20. Some Web researchers note that Google
helps prop up Wikipedia as an information
source since more than 50% of the traffic to
Wikipedia is generated from Google searches.
21. When Google went public, many employees
became instant millionaires. Yahoo!, which
owned 8.4 million shares of Google stock
before Google’s IPO, also benefited.
22. Stanford, which holds the patent to the
PageRank algorithm Larry Page created, gained
profit of $336 million,the most money any
university has ever received from a single
invention.
23. Google owns YouTube, DoubleClick, On2
Technologies, Picnik, Aardvark, AdMob, Zagat,
and Motorola Mobility.
24. There are Google bikes parked throughout
the Googleplex that employees can hop on and
ride from building to building. None of them is
locked; employees simply take them when they
need them.
25. A doctor regularly visits the Google campus
so Googlers don’t have to leave the office for a
checkup. Google is also known for its “20%
time,” the one day a week that employees can
take simply to work on something that interests
them.

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