Facts about Google | 10 Truths About Google

Google began in January 1996 as a research by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D.student at Stanford-domain google.com registered in 1997. Today, we will tell you some never heard before stories about this No.1 search engine. Go through it.

Some Unknown facts about Google

1. The name GOOGLE was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for GOOGOL. Googol is a mathematical term 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.

2. 50% of the people use it well as a search engine the other 50% of the people use it to check if their internet is connected.

3. 97% of revenue comes from their advertising services.

4. The biggest break in search came when Google introduced their improved spell checker seen as ‘Did you mean?’. This feature doubled their traffic.

5. 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.

6. If you search for 241543903 in Google images, you will find a lot of pictures of people putting their heads in refrigerators.

7. Google Inc. pays more to gay and lesbian employees compared to its heterosexual employees.

8. Google unsuccessfully tried to sell itself in 1999 for $1 million.

9. If you search “What is the answer to life, the universe and everything” it calculates it to be equal to 42. (Try it)

10. When Google launched Android O.S, Steve Jobs thought Google was guilty of “grand theft” and said he would “go thermonuclear war” with them.