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.

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Top Twitter Facts | Twitter 7th Birthday

Twitter celebrating its 7th birthday today, 21/3/2013. It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and July, in San Francisco. It is a micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as “Tweets”.

Twitter History

The service is available in around 20 languages. It has over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets/day and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. It is one of the 10 most visited websites on the Internet.

Amazing is that , this great success has been achieved in a very short period and playing pivotal role in so many people’s work , business. Interestingly, it is achieved by just clicking a button “JUST FOLLOWED” ;).

Here, are some unknown Facts about Twitter

1. Twitter has a bird as its logo, that’s why when you join you’re an egg. And your home button is a birdhouse.

2. The North Korean government has a Twitter account, which is blocked by South Korea.

3. Addiction of twitter causes the same changes in the brain, that are seen in cocaine users.

4. It literally forces you to improve your writing skills . The 140 character limit helps you master the art of getting to the point.

5. If Twitter raised the character limit from 140 to 200, it would finally allow 90 million Germans to finish a sentence.

6. It has more pages dedicated to musician/actor Justin Bieber than anyone else.

7. If it were a country, it would be the 12th largest country in the world.

8. The name of the social network was originally “Twttr,” later changed to Twitter.

9. It took 3 years, 2 months and 1 day to get to the billionth tweet.

10. Barack Obama’s victory tweet was the most retweeted tweet ever, counting more than 8,00,000 retweets.

11. 32% of all Internet users are using Twitter.

12. Over the span of 16 days, the London Olympics generated 150 million tweets.

13. 69% of followings are suggested by friends.

14. Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry have more followers than the entire populations of Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Canada, Argentina and Egypt.

15. The average user has 126 followers.

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