The internet giant Google is honouring its authorised establishment in 1998 on 27 September, celebrating its 23rd birthday this year. The Internet boon is commemorating 23 years of presence on its homepage with an animated chocolate cake. In 1995, the creators of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University. In 1996, the search engine that they constructed together moved live on Stanford’s network. Google Inc was officially established in 1998.
The new doodle blog of Google stated that there are billions of people searching in more than 150 languages on google. The post read further, from its primary server housed in a cabinet created out of toy blocks to its servers now being lodged in more than 20 data centres worldwide, its purpose of making the world’s information available to everyone continues the same. Let’s explore the 10 unknown facts earlier:
Google was initially called BackRub
Google has formally originated from BackRub, a research project that was started up in 1996 by the founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Some believe that Google’s actual name was BackRub as the program analysed the web’s “backlinks”.
Founders Larry and Sergey, functioning from their dorm rooms in the late 90s, created a search engine that “utilized links to infer the significance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. And they called this search engine Backrub, according to Google’s website,
Google had to change its telephone number
When Google was however in its beginning, the firm accidentally released its phone number on their official website and was bombarded with phone calls. Founder Larry explained to Time Magazine that they were in a small office in Palo Alto and they had maybe less than 30 employees there or something like that. And they already had millions of users. Their phone number accidentally got published on the website and it became unusable. As massive numbers of people were calling them they had to get a new one.
Google’s introductory server was prepared of Lego bricks
Creator Larry Page and Sergey Brin constructed a house made of Lego bricks to house their introductory server in 1996. It comprised 10 disks of 4GB each.
Google’s introductory office was a rented garage
Google’s introductory office was a friend’s garage situated in Menlo Park, California. The inventors leased their workspace from Susan Wojcicki, who is recently the CEO of YouTube. The business worked out of the garage for 6 months before moving out.
“Don’t be evil”: Google’s unofficial motto
“Don’t be evil” this phrase used to be, possibly, the most significant term in the company’s corporate ideology, until it was quietly eliminated in 2018. “don’t be evil” has been a component of the company’s corporate code of conduct since 2000, according to Gizmodo. While the term was eliminated from the advent of Google’s code of conduct, it is still the basis of the updated version which said “And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!” Google has dashingly bought domains that correspond its name in a comeback to “typosquatters’ ‘ who reap from spelling mistakes done by users. Accordingly, if you write Gogle.com or Gooogle.com, you will nevertheless be diverted to Google’s homepage.
Google rents goats
Does an internet giant require 200 goats? Seemingly, Google utilizes them to mow the gardens around its bureau. Google let out in a blog post from 2009, that rather than using noisy mowers that ride on gasoline and contaminate the air, they have rented some goats from California Grazing to do the task for them . A cowboy brings on 200 goats and they spend approximately a week with them at Google, consuming the grass and fertilizing at the same time.
Sundar Pichai’s initial interview at Google took place on April 1, 2004
Sundar Pichai: the CEO of Google and its parent firm, Alphabet, but he transpired to be interviewing for employment at Google on the day they confirmed Gmail. He said to Time Magazine “I remember people asking me about Gmail – ‘What do you think of it?’ I had no understanding it was an April Fool’s joke, or if it was actual.
Google’s first tweet
Google’s first-ever Tweet read: “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010” in February 2009. For those who don’t enunciate binary, it clearly implies “I’m feeling lucky”.
Google Easter Eggs
Google has a popular admiration for pranks, easter eggs and hidden games. Just browse “elgoog. im” to get on what has been talked about here.