15 Things About Google You Didn't Know

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Google was unconventional with its inventions & trend setting brand culture. With passing years it has brought us closer to immense knowledge and smoothened our daily life in every possible ways. It is equally fun and surprising to explore further about this legendary creation.

15 Weird Questions Asked On Google

*15 things you didn't know about Google begins with the past era when Google was originally known as 'Backrub'. The homepage read as " Backrub is a web crawler designed to traverse the web"!

*The first Google doodle featured a Burning Man symbol. Founders Larry Page & Sergey Brin visited the Burning Man festival in 1998 and they created the same to intimate the users about their special outing.

* The things you not know about Google also comprise of the fact that G-mail can be used and communicated in more than 50 languages. It includes Welsh, Basque,Tagalog, Telugu, Malayalam etc & latest being the Cherokee.

*A search for "do a barrel roll' or Z or R twice surprisingly spins the page. Also if you search for tilt, the Google page gets tilted automatically.

*While the opening price for Google's stock was $85 per share, with the beginning of operations, stock price raised to $483 which further soared as high as $600 in the past year, making Google a good investment opportunity.

*Google's first ever tweeter published on February 09 was innovative and interesting. It read as "I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010."- which means in binary terms "I'm feeling lucky".

*Google rented 200 goats from a company called California Grazing to facilitate cutting down the weeds and bush at Google headquarters. The operation was truly environment friendly and as Google puts it "was a treat to watch them mow".

*Google Headquarters also boasts of a number of peculiar sights including a gigantic T-Rex skeleton – nicknamed "Stan" after a "real" Dinosaur believed to be found nearby. It is the centre of attraction in campus decoration.

* The company is dog friendly and it appears one of interesting 15 things you didn't know about Google. The employees can bring their own dog to work and there is also a company dog named Yoshka who accompanies Google fellows to the Googleplex.

*A new Google employee is known as a "Noogler" and a former employee is referred to as a "Xoogler". Also around 1,000 employees emerged as millionaires when the company went public in 2004.

*The things we not know about Google doesn't end here. Google's first food order was Swedish fish as company snacks. Even the micro-kitchens are snack filled and located at a distance of about 100 feet from the work-cabins.

* The name Google was accidentally formed due to spell error made by original founders which they wanted to be known as ‘Googol‘.

* Until recently, Google employees were encouraged to use 20 per cent of their time working on their own projects. Google News & Orkut were two main outcomes of this idea.

* ‘I Feel Lucky’ button displaying at the homepage is sparsely used. Though it costs almost $110 million per annum to maintain it, they prefer not to compromise on user’s experience.

*Around 40,000 searches per second are done by Google search engine processes and it has found more than 30 trillion unique URL's & comprise about 40% of worldwide internet traffic- measured after a current downfall in Google services.