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  • The name Google is a spelling error. The founders of the site, Larry page and Sergey Brin, thought they were going for Googol.. Googol is the mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros.
  • Initially, Larry and Sergey Brin called their search engine BackRub, named for its analysis of the of the web's "back links."
  • The reason the google page is so bare is because the founder didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.
  • The company's first office was in a garage, in Menlo Park, California. Google's first employee was Craig Silverstein, now Google's Director of technology.
  • The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRank that assigns a rank to determine how useful it is. However, that is not why it is called PageRank. It is actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page.
  • It would take 5,707 years for a person to search Google's 3 billion pages. The Google software does it in 0.5 seconds.
  • The logos that appear on the Google homepage during noteworthy days and dates and important events are called Google Doodle. The company has also created an online museum where it has all the logos it has put on various occasions so far.
  • Dennis Hwang, a Korean computer artist in the United States, is the guy behind these witty Doodles. Hwang has been drawing the face of Google for over two years.
  • Keyhole, the satellite imaging company that Google acquired in October 2004 was funded by CIA. Keyhole's technology runs Google's popular program Google Earth.
  • Google Moon is an extension of Google Maps and Google Earth that, courtesy of NASA imagery, enables you to surf the Moon's surface.
  • 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 .


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