About Search Engine GIANT Google...
is one the few tech companies that pays money to
almost all its rivals. Almost all of Mozilla's money comes
from Google, given that Google pays over $300m a year
to be the default search engine on Mozilla's web
browser Firefox. Others in the league are Apple,
Microsoft and Yahoo, who all make use of Google
services.
2. Google Slogan: According to Google, the official
slogan is "to organize the world's information and make
it universally accessible and useful", and its unofficial
slogan is "Don't be evil".
3. The founder’s wealth: Founderts Larry Page and
Sergey Brin own just 16 per cent of the company.
Despite this, combined, they have a net worth of around
$46 billion.
4. “I’m feeling lucky”: Google's first official tweet was
the words "I'm feeling lucky" in binary.
5. Gmail: The email service was launched in 2005 and is
now available in more than 50 languages. The Gmail idea
was the brainchild of Rajen Sheth during an interview
with Google. It was later developed by Paul Buchhe.
Gmail, which was used internally for Google employees
initially, went public on 1, 2004 by making fun of paper-
based archiving by introducing "Gmail Paper", where a
user could click a button and Gmail would purportedly
mail an ad-supported paper copy email archive for free.
6. Google data: Google's search index is more 100
million gigabytes in size. It would take 100,000 one-
terabyte personal drives to contain the same amount of
data.
7. Reading CAPTCHA: Google uses reading CAPTCHA to
teach computers how to read text. With 200,000 million
CAPTCHAs solved each day. Google's computers learn
how to identify words scanned from books even if
they're warped.
8. The miscellany: The company might be the only one
in the world with the explicit goal of ensuring reduction
in the total time spent by people on its site. The world
watches 450,000 years of YouTube videos each month,
over twice as long as modern humans have existed.
9. Google’s green data centers: In its Lowa data center,
there is over 115,000 square feet of space, where there
are 9 more such data centers owned by Google. These
run Google’s internet services like Google Search,
Google+, Gmail, its cloud services and others. To
counter the huge waste of water that comes with a huge
facility, Google has turned to chilly outside air and even
seawater for greener ways to cool its data centers. The
search giant has also tapped into recycled waste water
to cool a data center in Douglas County, Georgia.
10. Google’s in house chef leads a team of 150
employees: The first in-house chef to be hired by Google
was Charlie Ayers, in November 1999. Back then, the
company had just 40 employees. He got his share of
publicity and by the time he left Google in 2006, Ayers
and his team of five chefs and 150 employees were
serving 4,000 daily lunches and dinners in 10 cafes
across the company's headquarters campus in Mountain
View, CA.
11. Google IPO turned many of its employees into
millionaires: what we all know is that the company went
public in 2004. What we don’t know is that the IPO
turned many of its employees into millionaires.
12. Google Acquisitions: On an average, Google has
acquired one company every week since 2010. Some
names that we are all aware of include big companies
like Android, Motorola Mobility, Quickoffice and many
others.
13. Page and Brin wanted to sell Google for $1 million
but it was offered with only $750,000: The owners
wanted to sell. They approached the Excite CEO George
Bell and told him they would sell it for $1 million. He
however, didn’t see this as being a worth offer and told
them he would buy for just $7,50,000.
14. Google Doodle: The first Google Doodle made its
appearance in 1998 and was in celebration of the
Burning Man festival. The first interactive Google doodle
was announced in May 2012. It celebrated the 30th
anniversary of the arcade game Pac-Man, in association
with Namco. Searchers play Pac-Man within their
browser by clicking the 'Insert Coin' button. The game
got viral with the users; so that Google made it a
permanent site after the Doodle had been removed.
15. Why Android is named after desserts and sweets?:
This is something that even this writer has always
wondered about. Android updates have been named
Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb,
Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean and recently KitKat.
According to Google, "It's kind of like an internal team
thing, and we prefer to be a little bit - how should I say
- a bit inscrutable in the matter, I'll say.” "The obvious
thing is that, yeah, the Android platform releases, they
go by dessert names and by alphabetical order for the
most part," he added.
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