15 Little-Known Facts About Google
15 Little-Known Facts About Google
Google is 21 years old. On this occasion, The Guardian published a list of fifteen little-known facts about the largest Internet company in the world. This is really interesting.
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| 15 Little-Known Facts About Google |
1. Initially, Google was called BackRub. This is how the main page of the search engine looked, which became the prototype of Google.
2. The incredibly fast growth of Google is especially noticeable against the background of one curious fact: since 2010, the Internet giant has bought an average of one company per week.
3. The first doodle was invented by the founders of Google Sergey Brin and Larry Page together. It happened in 1998. To the usual colorful inscription Google added a schematic image of a burning guy - a symbol of the Burning Man festival, which takes place in the Black Rock desert of Nevada. Bryn and Page went there in 2008.
4. Own chef, Charlie Ayers, appeared at Google in 1999, when the company employed only 40 employees.
5. Ayers has built a good career in the corporation, becoming the chef of the entire company. At the time he left Google, he controlled 150 employees and 10 cafes at Google Headquarters in Mountain View.
6. Gmail already supports over 50 different languages. Among them there are also such as the language of the Basque, Welsh, Tagalog, Malayalam, Telulu and the Cherokee language.
7. In 2004, Google became a public company, having sold part of its shares on the stock exchange. On the same day, about 1,000 of its employees became millionaires.
8. One of these lucky ones is masseuse Bonnie Brown. She came to work in the company in 1999. Her initial salary was $ 450 per week.
9. Button “I’m lucky!” has become extremely popular. But every year it costs Google $ 100 million in lost revenue from advertising.
10. Google hires goats. In 2009, the company leased about two hundred goats that grazed on the territory of its campus in California, and along the way, they fertilized the soil with their excrement.
11. Google’s first official corporate Twitter tweet meant “I’m lucky,” but it was recorded in a binary system, that is, it consisted of only zeros and ones.
12. A Google competitor, the Mozilla organization (Firefox browser), receives money from the Internet giant. Due to the fact that the browser uses the Google search engine by default, its developer receives $ 300 million a year.
13. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin own for only two 16% of the company.
14. The total value of this 16 percent stake is approaching $ 46 billion.
15. Each new employee within the company is called a nougler (noogler), and the former - xugler (xoogler).
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