10 Interesting but Lesser known facts about Google
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Fact No.1
In 1997, Google’s prototype was named “BackRub” and had this “logo” adopted.
Here is the full text of the research paper by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
Fact No.2
Google.com – The domain was registered on 15 September 1997 (WebArchive info)
Fact No.3
The first ever review of the Google Search Engine was done by Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch on August 4, 1998.
It was titled “Counting Clicks and Looking at Links”.
Fact No. 4
Google started off its first operations in this rented Garage.
(News)
Fact No. 5
Google’s first chef Charlie Ayers, ( hired in 1999 ) quit Google and opened his own restaurant in 2005.
(News)
Fact 6
Google won the prestigious award for Technical Achievement in 2000. In the nominees list there were no search engines at all.
(News)
Fact 7
Google’s ever first April Fool’s joke went online on April 1st, 2000 and was called “MentalPlex” – Google’s ability to read your mind.
Fact 8
The Google logo was never centered (as it appears today). It only appeared centered in March 2001. It was aligned to the left earlier. (And there were a lot more distractions then)
Fact 9
Google’s first employee is Craig Silverstein. Craig is the man behind “exact search” (where you get pages containing the exact search term within quotes.)
Fact 10
In 1999, when Google moved to their Paolo Alto office, there were only 19 employees in the company. Today there are 2,668 Googlers.
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Interesting facts about Google. I like Fact No. 4.
loved it !
I love Google and all these facts once again prove that this company deserves to be best )
Nice facts. Loved them
Great information
Knew none of them, the one fact that amuse me is rented garage.. life takes a twist. We never know what’s next!
great o know these facts . I WAS UNAWARE OF THESE
Interesting . …
I loved the Fact 4 and Fact 5
There are some things which we still not yet known for the google and some sites that are not related. Aside from this posted above there are also some different which we have to know about it. This facts would simply to bold each our knowledge.
Amazing facts! didn’t know about that. Google has grown a lot
only 2668 employees presently…!!! [:o]
nd its dominating the web world..!!!
shows u d class of its workers….
They were cool things.. amazing to know about the growth.. Phew!
Awesome one !!!! everyone should check this out …great inspiration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So Nice Information. Thanks for Sharing. Now a days i am daily reading your site and gathering Nice Information.
Really interesting to know about google.
very nice. i’m so suprise with the fact no. 4. they start small and now they are one of the leading company in net world
Great one !!
surprising and interesting facts!!
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It’s “Palo Alto”. And there are over 10,000 employees at present – not 2,668.
Very nice facts, did not know about any of them.
great information about google. but is it sound interesting that google has 2,668 employees
Considering how common and widely used Google is, I guess these facts should be known or at least read by all at least once. Interesting fun facts. Great job done in collecting them all.
Simply amazing! Any one would love to hear this! I am spreading this to my students!
Very interesting to see where Google started from. Glad they got rid of the Backrub name! Im sure they knew that would be doomed to fail lol.
really liked them…