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Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford
University, by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they
were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.
The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact
that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.
In fact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and
hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
Google is a mathematical term 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The
term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician
Edward Kasne.
Gmail was used internally for nearly 2 ears prior to launch to the
public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email
users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.
It consisted of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in
data centers around the world.
The Google search engine receives about a billion search requests per day.
Google's index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of
eight billions(2005) of web pages. Google searches this immense
collection of web pages often in less than half a second.
Google has a tradition of creating April Fool's Day jokes - such as
Google MentalPlex, which allegedly featured the use of mental power to
search the web. Some thought the announcement of Gmail in 2004 around
April Fool's Day was a joke.
Google receives daily search requests from all over the world,
including Antarctica.
Users can restrict their searches for content in 35 non-English
languages. To date, no requests have been received from beyond the
earth's orbit, but Google has a Klingon interface just in case.
Google has a world-class staff of 9,378 full-time employees known as
Googlers. The company headquarters is called the Googleplex located at
Mountain View at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway.
Google translates billions of HTML web pages into a display format for
WAP and i-mode phones and wireless handheld devices.
"I feel lucky" is nearly never used. It was a comfort button which
actually takes to the first web page returned by the search results.
Google use the unique 20%/5% rules. That is ,if at least 20% of people
use a feature, then it will be included. At least 5% of people need to
use a particular search preference before it will make it into the
'Advanced Preferences'.
Employees in Google are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on
their own projects. That's why we have GMail,Google News and Orkut
now.
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.
The basis of Google's search technology is called PageRankT, and
assigns an "importance" value to each page on the web and gives it a
rank to determine how useful it is. However, that's not why it's
called PageRank. It's actually named after Google co-founder Larry
Page.
Googlers are multifaceted. One operations manager, who keeps the
Google network in good health is a former neurosurgeon. One software
engineer is a former rocket scientist. And the company's chef formerly
prepared meals for members of The Grateful Dead and funkmeister George
Clinton.
Google's Orkut is very popular in Brazil and India. It was the
brainchild of a Google engineer who was given free reign to run with
it.
In a 2006 report of the world's richest people, Forbes reported that
Sergey Brin was #26 with a net worth of $12.9 billion, and Larry Page
was #27 with a net worth of $12.8 billion.
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