If you have been using internet for over a decade, you would surely agree
that since all this time, Google has had been the best source of help when it
comes to searching anything in the online world. You will, However be shocked to
find some of the very interesting facts about the renowned search engine and
people affiliated to it.
Here are 10 interesting History Facts of Google that you might not ever come
across!
10. Google’s Family
It was Larry Page’s brother Carl who helped them start an e-Group and a
dotcom company that was gained for over half a billion dollars by Yahoo by the
year 2000.
9. Original Name Of The Website
The original name for Google was Backrub and which was given to this website
due to the algorithm of the ranked pages was based on the number of back linked
pages the site had and supported.
8. Copyrights
The copyrights system of Google is very interesting because the patents that
have been filed with Google are referred to the patent that has been owned by
Dow Jones which is very much same to the Google copyrights.
7. Stanford
PageRank is the name of Google algorithm which has been given to it after
Larry Page. The patents for this are held by Stanford and are given 1.8mm shares
which were sold for 336 million dollars in the year 2005.
6. User Generated Data
According to some of the studies Google uses about 20 petabytes of user
generated data every day. (Petabytes are estimated at 10 to the 15th power. So 1
petabyte is approximately 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). It uses enormous totals
of calculation to index the Web, process search results, serve up ads etc.
5. Opening Shares
Google was publicized in 2004 and its opening shares were about 85 dollars
per share and during their IPO they raised it to about $2,718,281,828.
4. Largest Search Engine
During 2000, Google became the largest search engine of the world and users
have spent about 200 billion minutes over it until now.
3. Politics
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the two richest guys in the country to not
make any political contributions but have spent more on lobbying than Yahoo and
Facebook combined.
2. The First Google Employee
The number one employee of Google was Craig Silverstein and he is still
working at the company as the director of technology with a total net worth of
about 950 million dollars according to different websites.
1. April Fool Tradition
Google’s practice of April Fool’s jokes initiated in April 2000 when Google
proclaimed the “MentalPlex,” or Google’s aptitude to read a person’s mind as he
envisages the search results he wants.
So these were some interesting facts that you might not know about Google.
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