13 Interesting Facts about Google

1. Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.

2. Google’s Home Page Has 63 Validation Errors. Don’t believe me?: Check Google Validation

3. The Google search engine receives about a billion search requests per day.

4. The infamous “I’m feeling lucky” button is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.

5. Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ to which they replied “We are waiting for the rest of it”. To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as a crude end of page marker.

6. The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’.

7. Google has the largest network of translators in the world.

8. Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.

9. Google consists of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.

10. 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.

11. Google is a mathematical term 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasne.

12. Number of languages in which you can have the Google home page set up, including Urdu, Latin and Klingon: 88

13. Google translates billions of HTML web pages into a display format for WAP and i-mode phones and wireless handheld devices.

 

hmmm.... interesting.... thats quiet a lot of information on my most cherished search engine thx

 

4. The infamous “I’m feeling lucky” button is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.

One one think comes to mind when I hear the phrase "I'm feeling lucky"

 

Another important note is that the internet we know of today may not "be" if it not for the two individuals that started Google. For the most part any of us can find anything we want instantly using Google - it's really a remarkable feat of science.

 

Interesting read. I wonder how many times a day "just google it" was spoken around the world

 

where is google showing the number of total pages indexed? wasn't it supposed to be on the homepage?

 

Can you give me the source of this info?

 

yes, it's interesting info... were'd you get this?

 

Too Good man
Great Information regarding Google..
As now a days i m suffering alot from SERPS
This will help me
Many Thanks..

 

Actually Googol is a number that is represented by a one followed by one hundred (100) zeros.

 

I am sorry but Still i can not post the URL on the digitalpoint.com hence source of this information can not be posted.

 

You can still post it, it just wont show up as a link...

 

Interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

 

interesting to read, thanks

 

6. The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’.

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11. Google is a mathematical term 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasne.

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They register the word Google by mistake and by accident the word meaning a mathematical term?

 

Wow, that's extremely interesting. Thanks for sharing this!

 

^ no the term googol is a mathematical function, they just called they company google by 'mistake'

I say 'mistake' because i cant see how you could make such a spelling mistake!

 

Ok... That's clear know...

Change the word google with googol in the 11. so noone is confused...

Just my 2c

 

Thanks! i was also enlighten!

 

ok it's cool to know about goooooooooooooooooole..........