Celebrate Google’s Birthday with some Interesting Facts about Google

Wednesday 4^th septemeber was Google’s 15^th Birthday. It has completed 15 years of success.  Google was founded by Larry Page & Sergey Brin while they were studying Ph.D. at Stanford University. It has become athe world’s largest search engine and a synonym for search.  So how you celebrate a birthday?

Thinking still? Well everyone has its own way to celebrate a birthday or anything. At the occasion of google’s birthday we share some interesting facts about Google which you may not be aware of. So let’s start.

1.     The name Google was a misspelling of the word googol. And Googol means a one followed by one hundred zeros.

2.     Google started tweeting in February 2009 and the first tweet was in binary “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010." “I’m feeling lucky” is the meaning for this code.

3.     Guess the button which bypasses the results page and takes you direct to the first result of your search. Yes I am talking about the “I’m feeling lucky “button. Do you know due to this Google bear s loss of $100 million advertising revenue every year but the button is still there only because of the better user experience for Google search.

4.     To reduce the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ, Google rents out goats from a company in California.

5.     Google loves food and as well all googlers.  They think that no Googler should ever be more than 100 feet from a micro kitchen with food & snacks. And the first chef employed in Google earned $26 million from his stock options.

6.     Do you know what the first Google doodle was? It was a burning man because both of them were at the burning man festival in 1998.

7.     Do you know why the google home page is so bare? Because the fouders didn’t know the HTML and they wanted a quick interface only.

8.     Google advocates bring dogs at work and you know they also have a company dog at Google called Yoshka.

9.     Recently a pretty huge 40 % drop off in worldwide internet traffic because the google services went down for 5 minutes.

10. The new employees at google called as noogles and they have to wear a propeller beanie cap on their first Friday.

11.   Google employees encouraged to use 20 % of their time to work on their own projects.

12. According to google it produces 0.2g of CO2 per search.  (ref: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10286476/Googles-15th-birthday-15-facts-you-probably-didnt-know.html)

13.  Are you interested in knowing the corporate philosophies? They are interested as well as amazing. They include “you can be serious without a suit”, “you can make money without doing evil” and “work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun.”

I hope you liked the interesting facts about Google.  Share if you have another interesting one.

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