The Crazy Collector
presents
10 Facts Of Google You Cannot Resist To Know !!
Part1
So Lets Begin;
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1) The glorious history of Google
starts
with two students Larry Page 23 and Sergey Brin 24, who were
pursuing their Ph.D. at Stanford University, when they got the idea to
create a new search engine. Supposedly, Larry Page and Sergey Brin did not like
each other initially. They thought they have nothing in common, but with time
they learned life lessons together, they went on to become best friends for
life. This was perhaps a rather strange way of starting a venture as big as
Google.
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2)The biggest irony of Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s life is:
that there original goal for these two enthusiastic PH.D. Students
was to to sell their Google search idea for $1 million to whoever was
willing to purchase it. However, luckily for them (and us?), nobody
turned up ...
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3)Did you know that Google was originally named Googol?
The name failed when Larry Page and Sergey Brin received their first
$100,000 paycheck in the name of Google Inc. and they had to run and
create a bank account for the name, so that they could cash it.
Therefore, the naming ceremony was nothing but an accident.
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4)Google started its hiring process by recruiting Craig Silverstein
as their first employee, without their current sophisticated HR team.
Craig was Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s fellow student at Stanford.
(Craig was third employee of Google. He has now resigned from Google and
has joined Khan Academy, an online learning site offering collaborative
videos and projects.) -------------------------------------------------------
5)
The famous www.google.com of today was once
google.stanford.edu and z.stanford.edu, when it was in the testing phase and was working under the website of Stanford university.
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6)In the year 1997, Yahoo rejected
an offer to buy Google for
$1 million and now the company is worth$20 billion, whereas Google has grown up to $200 Billion. This is perhaps one of the most interesting financial losses of the IT industry.
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7)By December 1998, Google was named
the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites, as shown by PC Magazine.
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8)
In the February of 1999,
the Google Company
moved out of its garage office to its first mountain-view office, with just eight employees. This number is incomparable to the current staff size of Google.
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9)
Lego Computers: It is hard to believe that
there was a time when the founders of Google were short on funds and
used economic ways to save money. The very first Google’s storage rack
that stored ten 40 GB hard disks was made up of Lego. Can you believe
that the most royal company of the modern times had such a humble start?
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10) Why is Google is
sometimes nicknamed the
“Mountain View Chocolate Factory”.
Thats not because its gives its employees lot of chocolates (although it does) it is used as a comparison of Google to Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory - because of a similarity in the cultures of Wonka’s factory andthe Googleplex who both employ slightly strange eccentric but dedicated “engineers”.
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10 Facts Of Google You Cannot Resist To Know !! Part 2
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