Things you didn't know about Google

Things you didn't know about Google   

Google's original name was 'Backrub'. Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally settled on the name 'Backrub' for their search engine because their program analyzed backlinks to understand how important a website was and what other sites it related too. The name lasted for a year until they began brainstorming new names that would reflect just how much data they were indexing.

Google's name comes from the mathematical term 'Googol' which is a number that is a 1 with hundred zeroes following it. When page and his office mates at Stanford began tossing around ideas for the name, a graduate student named Sean Anderson suggested the word Googleplex which page then shortened to Google.

The original 'I am feeling lucky' option cost Google up to 110 million dollars per year. Thanks to Google instant, the original I'm feeling lucky option has since now Google starts narrowing search results as soon as you start typing in the search box.

The first Google doodle was inspired by burning man.They designed the first doodle when they were away at burning man festival to let the users know that they will be unavailable to solve any technical issues.

Google made an agreement with NASA in exchange for a private runway. Google gives NASA 1.3 million dollars as a part of this agreement.

Google owns common misspellings of its own name such as www.gooogle.com, www.goggle.com and www.googlr.com.

Google is a green community that is concerned about the environment and rents goat to mow the lawn of their headquarters to lessen their carbon footprints.

The founders weren't happy when Google was added to the dictionary in 2006 by the merriam-webster and Oxford English dictionary.

According to 2016 stats, on an average, there are over 2.3 million Google searches per second.

Jeff Bezos was one of the first investors with 100,000 dollars in Google in 1998 before the company was incorporated

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