About Google!!

 

You'll always be our
homepage !!
 

Here are 15 thing's you didn't
know about Google:
 

1. Google was originally called
BackRub. The
homepage read: "BackRub is a
'web crawler' which
is designed to traverse the web."
 

2. Google has acquired an average
of one company
every week since 2010.
 

3. The first Google doodle was a
Burning Man
symbol. Founders Larry Page and
Sergey Brin went
to the Burning Man festival in
1998 and added
the doodle to let users know they
were away from
the office that weekend.
 

4. Google hired its first in-house
chef, Charlie
Ayers, in November 1999, when
the company had
just 40 employees.
 

5. Ayers went on to become the
firm's executive
chef, overseeing a team of 150
employees across
10 cafes at its headquarters in
Mountain View,
California.
 

6. You can use Gmail in more than
50 languages.
These include: Welsh, Basque,
Tagalog, Malayalam,
Telugu and Cherokee.
The first Google Doodle from
1998 – incorporating
the Burning Man logo.
The first Google Doodle from
1998 – incorporating
the Burning Man logo.
Photograph: Google
 

7. Around 1,000 of Google's
employees became
millionaires when the company
went public in
2004.
 

8. One of those millionaires was
masseuse Bonnie
Brown, who worked at the
company giving back
rubs for $450 a week back in
1999.
 

9. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button,
which bypasses
the results page to take users
directly to the first
result of their search, has been
estimated to cost
Google around $100m in lost ad
revenue every
year.
 

10. Google hires goats. In 2009,
the company
rented around 200 goats for a
week to eat the
grass and fertilise the soil at its
California
headquarters.
 

11. Google's first official tweet
was the words "I'm
feeling lucky" in binary.
 

12. Almost all of rival company
Mozilla's money
comes from Google. The firm pays
$300m a year to
be the default search engine on
Mozilla's web
browser Firefox.
 

13. Google founders Larry Page
and Sergey Brin
own just 16% of the company.
 

14. That 16% gives them a
combined net worth of
around $46bn.
 

15. A new Google employee is
known as a
"Noogler" and a former employee
is referred to as a "Xoogler".