Superb Amazing Facts about Google

Friends welcome to my Superb Amazing Facts blog. Here we write some interesting facts about GOOGLE!

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Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, and was formally incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. You know there's more to something than meets the eye when such a massively successful company has such a simple layout though, and I mean that in the best way possible.

Google has always done things a little bit differently, and that works to keep things fresh, immersive and consistently progressive.

Here are some Google facts you may not know!

1.       The name 'Google' is actually derived from the mathematical term 'googol' which is basically 1 with 100 zeros following it.

2.       Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally named Google as 'Backrub'

3.       As part of their green initiative, Google regularly rents goats to mow the lawns of their mountain view Head Quarters, the employees claim they find it calming to see goats outside the windows.

4.       Thanks to Google Instant, you can't actually use the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button anymore Google's homepage includes a button labeled "I'm Feeling Lucky". Prior to a change in 2012, when a user typed in a search and clicked on the button the user would be taken directly to the first search result, bypassing the search engine results page.

5.       Google uses a web tool called foo.bar to recruit new employees based on what they search for online. If Google sees that you're searching for specific programming terms such as Python, they might just ask you to apply for a job.

6.       The first-ever Google Doodle was a Burning Man stick figure that came out on August 30, 1998. It came about when Larry and Sergey visited the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. It was added to the homepage to let users know they were out of the office and couldn't fix technical issues like a server crash.

7.       Google owns common misspellings of its own name as well, such as www.gooogle.com, www.gogle.com, and www.googel.com.

8.       The first Google computer storage was built with Legos.

9.       Google employees in the US get death benefits which guarantee that the surviving spouse will receive 50% of their salary every year for the next decade.

10.   There's a rotated version of Google known as 'Google Mirror', which shows everything in a mirrored avatar. It might sound like just fun and pointless add on, but it was actually useful in circumventing the Great Firewall in China that banned Google. I think you are curious to try it. Just type “www.elgoog.im” and it shows everything in a mirrored form.

   11.    Google's CEO Sundar Pichai (India) has turned into so much more than just a search engine, bringing out innovative ideas and trying out new things on almost a daily basis.

So, friends, we will come soon to update these facts and adding some more interesting facts about Google Superb Amazing Facts Part-2, so follow us on Facebook.