Saturday 10 January 2015

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TOP 10 FACTS ABOUT GOOGLE

Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software, and online advertising technologies. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords. Google was founded on September 4, 1998 by  Larry Page & Sergey Brin. Larry Page is current CEO of Google. There are lots of unknown facts about Google but today I am sharing top 10 of them.

1.

The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for “Googol”

2.

Google’s first tweet was “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.” It means “I’m feeling lucky” in binary code.

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The Primary Reason Of Google Homepage is so bare due to the fact that Google’s founders didn’t know HTML

4.

Google has the largest network of translators in the world.

5.

 The Google Logo Was Not Centered Until 2001.

6.

 Google Has a Company Dinosaur.
7.
Google Encourage their employees  to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.
8.
Google homepage was initially launched with a Beta label, which was removed on 21st September 1999, and that was when Google became the father of the search engine technology.
9.
Two searches on Google produces about 14g of CO2, or the same amount as boiling a kettle, according to a Harvard University academic. However, Google disputes this and say it’s closer to 0.2g (or 0.003kWh) per search.
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Google’s traffic doubled when the “did you mean,“option was introduced. This feature was achieved through the introduction of advanced spell checkers and helped users find suggestions to their search requirements.