Google - a relatively young company, but it has already had a great influence on the development of culture and society. With the help of Google services, people not only find all the necessary information, but also shop, have fun, work.
1. Initially, Google was called BackRub.
Create a search engine was not enough. To make it interesting for the users, Larry Page and Sergei Brin needed to come up with a brainchild for their creation. Initially, they called it BackRub, because the search engine was looking for backlinks or backlinks. Fortunately, now we have a more sonorous nickname Google, and we can "google", but not "pobekrabit."
2. Google Mirror - the reverse version of the usual site.
elgooG - a parody of so-called mirrors - copies of other sites. If you go to this service, all content will be displayed backwards.
3. Google - actually written with an error word "googol."
When Brin and Page realized that BackRub was not the best name, they decided to call the Google service - as if in honor of the number of decimal systems represented by a unit with a hundred zeros.
4. With Google Sky, you can get closer to the stars.
Google Earth is a famous application, thanks to which a simple philistine can explore almost all corners of our planet. Google Sky is a slightly less popular service, but with its help, users can study stars, constellations, the universe.
5. In the "Pictures" tab you can play at Atari Breakout.
If you enter the phrase Atari Breakout into the search box in Google pictures, the service will open the game. Do not yawn, the ball should not fall!
6. Google helps prevent suicide.
When someone searches for information that can potentially be useful for committing suicide, Google immediately notifies the trust services about this.
7. "Google" uses foo.bar to attract employees.
The company constantly recruits new employees and very often uses for this purpose a tool called foo.bar. He finds people who are looking for certain programming terms and "offers to play them in the game." If the applicant agrees to fulfill the proposed task and successfully copes with it, he may well be sent an invitation to work.
8. Google offices are designed so that the zone with food from each employee is at a distance not exceeding 60 m.
When this idea was only introduced into the project, many decided that it was nothing more than a Green trick that would help keep employees in the workplace longer. But it was incredibly effective. After they chew something delicious, the company's employees increase productivity. In addition, food courts have easy conversations, in which various interesting ideas are often born.
9. Google spends huge sums on research and development.
In 2016, for example, the development of this direction the company took 14 billion dollars. And this amount significantly exceeds the costs of such giants as Apple or Microsoft.
10. To mow your lawns, Google rents goats.
Technical progress by technical progress, and better than good old goats with a lawn hardly anyone can manage. Because the representatives of "Google" regularly hire a shepherd and herd of 200 animals, which not only mow the grass, but also fertilize it in parallel.
11. "Google" loves dogs.
In the statute of the company there is an item according to which all employees can take dogs with them to work. Boredom pets, while the owners are working, do not have to - they will certainly be looked after by the employees of a special "dog" department. As practice shows, those who can take their favorite beast with them to the office, work more productively.
12. The first Google server was built from Lego.
Sergey Brin with Larry Page their first server was built from the details of Lego Duplo. Knowing this, on the multi-colored company logo you will look quite different eyes.
13. Private aircraft Page and Brin can land on the runways of NASA.
In general, NASA prohibits private aircraft from operating their runways. But for Page and Brin, the organization made an exception. All because the founders of Google allow NASA representatives to place on their boards their scientific instruments.
14. Google is worried not only about its employees, but also about their families.
If a company employee dies, his family gets 50% of his annual salary for 10 years. And this assistance is absolutely free of charge - without pledge and other obligations - and is relied on by everyone, regardless of how long the deceased worked for Google.
15. Since 1998, "Google" has bought more than 170 companies.
This company - as an ever-growing and evolving organism, which incessantly subjugates the less powerful players of the technical market.
16. The California headquarters of Google has its own tyrannosaurus.
His name is Stan, and if you believe the staff, this skeleton - corresponding to the real size, by the way - is made of real fossils.
17. Owners wanted to sell Google's Excite for $ 1 million.
In 1999, Page and Bryn offered the Excite company director to buy Google for a million. Even after they agreed to lower the price to 750 thousand dollars, George Bell did not dare to deal. Now "Google" costs about 167 billion, and the leadership of "Iksayt" must be biting elbows, therefore, it forgets to fully develop its resource.
18. The first Google message was written in binary code.
The company decided to put its first tweet in a binary code format. He looked like this: «I am 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010». What stands for: "I feel happy."
19. The first doodle from "Google" was a wooden figure Burning Man.
In 1998, the founders of Google decided to go to the festival Burning Man, passing in the desert of Nevada. And so that users know about this, they sketched the first doodle - the figure "Berning Maine".
20. Minimalist design of Google turned out because Bryn did not know HTML.
The first design of the service was very restrained. All because its founders did not have a webmaster, and Brin himself sincerely admitted that he did not understand HTML. And although much has changed since then, the minimalist design has been preserved and has become a kind of "fiche" of the company.
21. "Google" owns many domain names.
Including those that generally look like the original name - Google, - but in fact they are written with errors. Due to this, the service can redirect to your site more people.
22. Newcomers in Google are called "nuglers."
Generally, employees of the company are called "Google", but if you just went to work, be prepared to be called "Nugler".
23. The word google was added to the dictionaries in 2006.
Very quickly he found a place in the official dictionary. As a verb in 2006, the word was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
24. All employees receive free meals.
Has your boss treated you to dinner for a long time? But in Google it happens every day.
25. For one search query, Google needs more processing power than it takes to launch Apollo 11 on the moon.
You did not realize that you are dealing with such power on a daily basis, right?