The Shocking Revelation of Google

TOP 4 CRAZY FACTS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT GOOGLE

                                                                   

 EARLY GOOGLE:  

• One of the early versions of Google could process 30-50 pages per second. Now Google can process millions of pages per second.
• Google was first stored on ten 4GB hard drivers in a Lego casing, now showcased by Stanford University. The index now has over 100 million GB of data.
• Google's original name was Backrub, based on the system finding and ranking pages based on backlinks.
• The company's unofficial motto is, "Don't be evil
• Standford still owns the patent to Google's algorithm, named PageRank.    

GOOGLE HOMEPAGE:   

• In 1998, the Google homepage included a Yahoo-like punctuation mark: the exclamation point!
• The first Google Doodle was an out-of-office message in1998 when Brin and page were travelling to Nevada to attend the Burning Man festival.
• Until March 2001, the google homepage was aligned on the right side of the page instead of centered.
• The first April fool's joke was in 2000 when Google announced its mind-reading ability for searches called "MentalPlex".
• google added klingon as a language interface option in 2002.  

GOOGLE COMMUNICATIONS AND APPS:  

• The company first Tweet was "I'm feeling lucky" in binary code.
• Google's reCAPTCHA helps their computers learn how to read text. The computers are able to identify words scanned from books, even if they are warped.
• The Google Street View ahs about 28 millions miles of photographed roads.

THE GOOGLEPLEX:       

• Google rents 200 goats to "mow" the weeds and brush around headquarters.
• Dogs with strong bladders and friendly dispositions are welcomed in the offices, but cats are discouraged due to the number of dogs present.
• Known for providing gourment food and snacks to employees, the first Google snack in 1999 was swedish Fish, a chewdy candy
• While employees are called Googlers, new employees are called Nooglers.
• Headquarters is full of odd decorations, such as a T-Rex named stan, a space ship, pink flamingos, a Lego figure, adult-sized ball pits, Android statues, and phone boxes painted in Google colors.

THE FOUNDERS AND THEIR COMPANY: 

• Larry page's brothet was a co-founder of  eGroups, a dot-com company that Yahoo bought for about $500 million in 2000.
• Larry page and sergey Brin met at Stanford When Brin was asked to show page, who was a new student, around the school.
• Google has averaged a new company acquisition each week since 2010.
• Google acquired Youtube via meetings at Denny's.

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