Its Sept 4th and the world's favorite search engine turns "15". Using this occasion to point out some lesser known facts about this phenomena. Here they are:
- Its initial name was "BackRub". (ha,ha. .thats really more of a itch relieving cream's name,rite?)
- It was found in a garage! (Wow,can u believe it? Coz i sure cant)
- Larry Page and Sergey Brinare are the founders(September 4, 1998).
- Google celebrated this occasion by announcing its latest android: KitKat will be 4.4
- Google actually rents out goats. . ! It rents goats from a company called California Grazing. It does so to cut down on the weeds at Google HQ. Wow, thats cheaaapp or smart?
- a Google staffer is commonly referred to as a "Googler" while a new team member joins as a "Noogler" (Seriously?)
- Google actually has a "Dog Policy"! Yeah that's rite. staff are allowed to bring their dogs to the office. Unfortunately cats are not quite as welcome!
- Google used to sport an exclamation mark ,way back. Just like Yahoo. (ouch)
- Google has a concept called "Doodles". Dont u remember how the google home page logo changes on special occasions? Yup. that's it!
- The Google home page is famously bare. Its in fact because of the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML back then! ha!
- "Googol" was the spelling they actually intended, but fate had other ideas. :)
- “I feel lucky” is a unused feature at the google page. However its retained for the 'google experience' on demand.
Dont believe my points? Go Google it!!
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