Google is the world's biggest internet company and possibly the most mysterious company too!
Many of us are very curious to know about Google. So if you are also one of these 'many' people, then read this post of ours today with full enjoyment because in this we have given information about some interesting things related to Google.
• GOOGLE QUICK FACTS:
• Launching: 04 September 1998
• Founders: Larry Page & Sergey Brin
• Headquarters: California, US
• Owner Company (Parent Co.): Alphabet Inc.
Before we go through some interesting information about Google; It would be good that first of all we know some small things about it. Here are some basic information about Google-
(What is Google)-
Google is a search engine as well as a big company in the Internet world, many of whose services (eg- Youtube, Android, Google Maps, Chrome Browser) we often use.
(When did Google establish)-
Google was founded on 4 September 1998. Google started as a search engine but today it has spread all over the internet.
(Owner of Google)-
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the owners of Google. Although Larry Page has more ownership in Google. Along with this, Larry Page is also the CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet. While the CEO of Google is Sundar Pichai of Indian origin.(Which Country Google belongs to)-
Google is a US company. Its headquarters (HQ) is in the city of California, USA.
Crazy Facts & Stories About Google
1. Google search engine works with the help of backlinks, so the founders of Google first named it BackRub but then later they changed it. After this he wanted to name the backrub Googol (in mathematics the number 100 to 100 is called Googol) but by mistake it was Google instead of Googol. And the world's most popular name of the Internet was born.
2. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the creators of Google, met by chance. After earning a computer science degree from the University of Michigan in 1995, Page enrolled for a P.hd at Stanford Univ. Coincidentally, Serge was studying his PhD there at that time. Being a senior, the college people gave Serge the responsibility of showing Larry the college and thus the two met.
3. As part of their college project, Leary and Serge created BackRub, a search engine that ranks webpages based on backlinks, which they later converted to Google, after some improvements.
4. Google's first office was a Motor Garage, which was built in Santa Margartia Avenue Menlo Park. Perhaps you do not know that this garage belonged to none other than the current CEO of Youtube, Suzanne Watchczyk. Susan was also Google's first marketing manager.
5. The idea of making Google Gmail was given by a person of Indian origin. After this, Google created Gmail and launched it on April 1, 2004, on the day of April Fool Day. At first, many people thought that this was a joke from Google, but later they were convinced.
6. Google's first doodle was a Burning Man which they created in 1998 for the famous Burning Man Festival. In this he showed a burning man behind the second 'O'.
7. Google has bought about 214 small and big companies between 2001 and 2017. That means roughly one company every month!
8. When Google launched its image search in the year 2001, they gave people the opportunity to search 250 million photos on the very first day, which was very spectacular according to the first day.
9. In the year 2006, when Google was established as a big company, it gave free wifi to the people of Mountain View, California (where Google's main headquarters is located).
10. In the year 2004, when Google became a public company (ie came in the stock market), its 1 crore 96 lakh shares were sold at the rate of $ 85 per share. At that time Google was also compared to General Motors.
11. More than 60 thousand searches are done on Google every second. According to this 3.5 billion searches are done every day and 1.2 trillion searches are done throughout the year.
12. Google's PageRank patent was previously under Stanford University. To buy the rights to Google, he transferred his 1.2 million shares to Stanford University.
13. Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim was the first person to invest in Google. In August 1998, he invested 1 Lac Dollar in Google.
14. Initially, Google had a collection of 4 GB harddisks to store data, in which 40 GB of data could be filled in total. In this Google's indexed data was kept.
15. Google's first homepage was launched in the year 1998. Google it! Next to the name of the name was the same exclaimation mark as Yahoo! Happens in
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| Google's first homepage |
16. Google's first joke on April Fools' Day was a fungame called MentalPlex in which Google asked people to look carefully at a given animated picture and think of what they wanted to search on Google.
17. Just two years after the launch of Google, in 2000, an independent research company NPD declared Google the best search engine in the world.
18. Yahoo had refused to give a loan to Google and later in 2002, when Yahoo wanted to buy Google for $ 3 billion, Google accepted it.
19. Google did its first tweet on Twitter by writing "I'm feeling lucky" in the binary number system.
20. Alphabet Inc. is the owner company of Google, which was formed in 2015. The main purpose of creating this is to keep Google's web services separate from other services. Larry Page is its CEO. Companies that come under Alphabet are- Google LLC, X, SideWalk Labs, Calico, Verily Life Sciences, Google Deepmind, Jigsaw, Waymo, CapitalG, Google Fiber, Firebase, Makani, etc.
21. Alphabet is a public company. Alphabet was formed almost 17 years after the formation of Google. By the time alphabet was created, the alphabet.com domain had been taken, so he thought it better to name his website abc.xyz.
22. The revenue of the Alphabet company crossed 100 billion dollars in the year 2017. With this, Alphabet Inc. Became the world's largest internet company, overtaking Amazon.
23. The major part (about 84%) of the total revenue of Google and Alphabet comes from advertising. However, year after year, Google is reducing its dependence on the advertising model.
24. Alphabet spends $ 14 billion on Research and Development (R&D). At the same time, Amazon invests $22.6 billion every year on its research and development.
25. Google has come at number #1 in the list of fortune best companies to work for (ie best companies to work for) many times from 2007 to 2017. That is, it is one of the best places to work for one person.
26. Foo.bar is a secret tool by which Google hires programmers with excellent coding skills. In this, people are given to solve coding problems.
27. The new people working in Google are called Nooglers i.e. New Googler. A noogler can be easily recognized by its colorful hat.
29. Google.com is the most popular site in the world according to Alexa Internet. YouTube comes at number two after Google. Google's Indian site google.co.in comes at number 9 in this list.
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