Google Fun Facts!!!!
Kailash Shastri
Google sorts billions of bits of information for its
users. Here are some
little-known bits of information about Google:
- Google's name is a play on the word
*googol*, which refers to the
number 1 followed by one hundred
zeroes. The term was coined by Milton
Sirotta, nephew of
American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized
in
the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman.
Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to
organize the
immense amount of information available on the
web.
- Google started as a *research project* at
Stanford University,
created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and
Sergey Brin when they were
24 years old and 23 years old
respectively (a combined 47 years old).
- Google's index of web pages is the largest
in the world, comprising
of billions of web pages. Google
searches this immense collection of web
pages often in less
than half a second.
- Google receives daily search requests from
all over the *world*,
including Antarctica.
- Users can restrict their searches for
content in *35 non-English
languages*, including Chinese,
Greek, Icelandic, Hebrew, Hungarian and
Estonian. To date, no
requests have been received from beyond the earth's
orbit, but
Google has a Klingon interface just in case.
- Google has a world-class staff of more than
2,668 employees known as
*Googlers*. The company headquarters
is called the Googleplex.
- Google translates billions of HTML web
pages into a display format
for WAP and i-mode phones and
*wireless* handheld devices, and has
made it possible to enter
a search using only one phone pad keystroke per
letter, instead
of multiple keystrokes.
- *Google Groups* comprises more than 845
million Usenet messages,
which is the world's largest
collection of messages or the equivalent of
more than a
terabyte of human conversation.
- 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.
- *Googlers are multifaceted*. One operations
manager, who keeps the
Google network in good health is a
former neurosurgeon. One software
engineer is a former rocket
scientist. And the company's chef formerly
prepared meals for
members of The Grateful Dead and funkmeister George
Clinton.
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Regards,
Kailash Shastri
Programmer
Asp
Design & Development
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