Hello there. So, we all knew our old school friend ‘Google’ who helped many of us in obtaining passing marks. Many of you might be in a close relationship with the search engine and may amaze your friends by celebrating Google’s birthday on September 27. Well, so sorry to inform you but almost every individual has a crush on your best friend and their affection is increasing rapidly. However, google never refuses to help anybody who knocks at the search bar with any complicated query. Even if Google doesn’t know he simply apologizes for his inability. Google is such a friend in need of a friend indeed. A kind, polite and helpful guy who loves everyone and helps without any discrimination. Here are the top 40 secrets but Interesting and Enthralling facts about ‘Google’ that you must know about your friend.
- It was “BackRub” in 1995 before “Google”. The original name of Google is Backrub and you can even ask your best friend about it.
- Google is the most searched and visited website over the internet according to AI Alexa.
- Your Friend ‘Google’ answers over 3.5 billion searches everyday and you will be shocked that all the searches are done by using 3 million computers. Google looks upon 1.2 trillion queries in a year that is really fascinating. Your friend is doing some good work. He deserves to be appreciated.
- Google first Index was Larry Page’s web page at Stanford University.
- Stanford University held the patent on ‘PageRank’ the algorithm of Google before the company made a deal of 1.8 million shares to get the rights of the patent back.
- The First investment in the making of the world’s biggest search engine was, of $100K from the co-founder of Sun Microsystem, ‘Andy Bechtolsheim’ in August 1998.
- The Oxford English Dictionary added ‘Google’ as a verb in 2006.
- The search engine ‘Google’ crossed the 1 billion unique (N) visitor on May 2011.
- Google annual revenue was recorded $50 billion in 2012, as per an official announcement from Google.
- Your friend’s father tried to sell it to the CEO of Excite for $1 billion in 1999 but fortunately they refused it… Poor Kid wasn’t aware of his biggest mistake.
- Initial storage of Google was 10 hard drives of 4GB = 40GB. It was to store the indexing date and coding of ‘Google’ in the earlier days.
- Google earned most of its revenue 99% of advertising only.
- Google Earth was renamed after Keyhoke, Inc. who gave a 3-D look to the Earth. Google owned it in 2005 and added it to Google as Google Earth.
- The very first homepage of google was ‘Google!’ just like “Yahoo!”. Google registered a Domain ‘Google.com’ in 1998.
- Google’s first doodle was made of a stick figure behind the second ‘O’ on the occasion of ‘Burning Man Festival’ on August 30, 1998.
- April Fool! MentalPlex, the mind reading search ability was a hoax from google on April Fools’ Day. It was a fun activity in which the user has to stare at an animated illusion or image and think about their search.
- Google purchased over 127 mega companies in 12 years. Yes, he is a rich guy, let him be the tough guy.
- Google takes you 95116 years ahead as it shows you a complex data collected from 50 million pages in just a minute. A manual search of these pages is beyond your imagination.
- Google posted the first tweet “I’m Feeling Lucky” in the binary code (0 and 1) the language used in the computer systems.
- The Official tagline for the Code of Conduct of Google “Don’t be evil” was replaced in 2015 by “Do the right things” by its parent company Alphabet.
- Google has over 214 sister concern companies after it including Next Labs, AdMob, DoubleClick, Kaggle, Dropcam, and many more
- Amazon became the world largest Internet company in 2018 and the credit goes to Alphabet, Google’s parent company who did the company’s market capitalization.
- If you get a job in Google then you will be “A Noogler” wearing a multicolored hat.
- “Google knows more about you than your mother,” said Kevin Bankston, who served as senior staff attorney in 2009.
- Your friend ‘Google’ owns over 70 office spaces in across 50 countries in the world.
Though Google knows everything but this blog will give you some insights into how much you know about Google. There are easter eggs too for engaging the user through offering free game play, including “Dino Run” Game. Thousands of interesting facts are here to add to the list and you check out some Never Known Facts About Google Here.
