Saturday, December 13, 2008

Ten Most Interesting Facts About Google


Google provides billions of information more or less all things occurs in universe, here some interesting fact of google which may new to you.

1) Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.

2) Google started as a research project at Stanford University by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page (24) and Sergey Brin (23).

3) Google has a world-class staff of more than 2,668 employees known as Googlers. The company headquarters is called the Googleplex.

4) Swedish fish is the first (on the list) take-away snacks Google orders to its office.

5) There are no restrictions on Googlers dress code in the office, in which pajama, ugly sweater and even super hero costume were on the records.

6) The youngest Google employee was 7 years old. (Not sure about this, the only thing searchable from the web was a 15 years old.

7) Google publishes variety of logos commemorating holidays and events. The first one on the books being a self-made “Burning Man” logo by the founders themselves.

8) Google has a tradition of perpetrating April Fools’ Day hoaxes. In 2008 alone, 16 hoaxes are created by Google worldwide. The most memorable one though was the Google TiSP (short for Toilet Internet Service Provider) in 2007.

9) Google products appear in 117 type of languages, including 5 “fake” languages like Elmer Fudd and Swedish Chef. Spanish, German, French and Japanese are the most used search language besides English.

10) The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank™, and assigns an "importance" value to each page on the web and gives it a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that's not why it's called PageRank. It's actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page.