Search engine giant Google is celebrating its 22st birthday with a doodle. Google was founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998 and now operates all over the world in over 100 languages. Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Google.
Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Google
- The name ‘Google’ is derived from the mathematical term ‘googol’ which is basically 1 with a 100 zeros following it.
- Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally named Google ‘Backrub’.
- There’s a rotated version of Google known as ‘Google Mirror’, which shows everything in a mirrored avatar
- Google wanted to sell itself to online company Excite in 1999 for $1 million, but the Excite CEO rejected the offer
The birthday is celebrated with a doodle which shows what a desktop computer that shows a Google search screen. The doodle has a timestamp also dated September 27, 1998. In 1998, Brin and Page published a paper about launching a prototype of a “large-scale search engine.” “We chose our systems name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10100 and fits well with our goal of building very large-scale search engines.”
Here is a list of Google Products, which are vitally important in my daily life :
- Google Search Engine.
- Gmail
- Blogger
- Google Duo
- Youtube
- Hangout
- Drive
- Keep
- Google Analytics
- Webmaster[Console]
- Android
- Photos
- Translate
- Docs
- Earth
- Adwords
- Adsense
- Chrome
- Maps
- Messages
- Contacts
- Docs
- Sheets
- Google My Business
- Google Play Music
- Google Pay
- News
- Assistant
- Google Trends
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Survey
- Google Play
- Google Fit
- Google Alerts
- Gboard
- Chrome Web Store
Know about google present CEO Sundar Pichai:
Pichai Sundararajan, also known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian-American business executive. He is an engineer and the chief executive officer of Google LLC.
| Born: | 10 June 1972, Madurai |
| Salary: | US$1,881,066 (2018) US$1,333,557 (2017) US$199.7 million (2016) |
| Citizenship: | American |
| Spouse: | Anjali Pichai |
| Education: | Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (2002) |
| Children: | Kavya Pichai, Kiran Pichai |