Today, the mostcommonly used search engine Google has turned 23 and to mark this happyoccasion the company has come up with a unique cake doodle on its homepage. Thepage was officially found on September 27, 1998, and was founders Sergey Brinand Larry Page at Stanford University.
Google celebrated the23rd birthday and on a blog post wrote, “Its mission of making the world’sinformation accessible to everyone remains the same. Happy 23rd Birthday,Google!”
Today on Google’sbirthday, we have brought some interesting facts about it, which you probablydon’t know.
Have a look at those here:
1.) Google wasoriginally named “BackRub”:
Brin and Page, in1996, collaborated and made a ‘web crawler’ which was named “BackRub” becausethe program analyzed the web’s backlinks.
2.) Google is a playword of word “Googol”:
On September 15, 1997, Page and Brinregistered the domain name of their search engine as Google, which was thetwisted form of googol. ‘Googol’ is a term used to represent a numerical valuein which one is followed by hundred zeroes.
3.) Google’s firstserver was made of Lego bricks:
In the initial year,Page and Brin made a house of Lego bricks and used it as a server. The housecontained 10 disks of 4GB each.
4.) Google’s firstoffice:
Google’s first officewas a rented garage in Menlo Park, California. The garage was owned by SusanWojcicki, who was Google’s first marketing manager and current CEO of YouTube.
5.) Google’s firstdoodle:
Google’s inauguraldoodle was a burning man stick figure and was created by Page and Brin inAugust 1998.
6.) Google’s firsttweet read…:
Google posted itsfirst-ever tweet in February 2009, and it read, “I'm 01100110 01100101 0110010101101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 0110001101101011 01111001 00001010,” which meant, “I’m feeling lucky.”
7.) Sundar Pichai wasinterviewed on the same day they announced Gmail:
Currently, SundarPichai is the CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. He was interviewedfor the post on the same day they announced Gmail – April 1, 2004, and when hewas asked about his idea for the new entry he thought that it confused as hehad no idea if was an April Fool's joke, or if it was real.
8.) Swedish Chef isthe preferred language in the Google search.
9.) Goggle has had ananimal-friendly office since the beginning.
10.) Google had tochange its number:
During the budding stage, the company accidentally publishedits phone number on the website. “We'd accidentally published our phone numberon our website, and our phone number was just unusable. We had to get a new onethen because people just started calling us,” Page told a popular magazine.