1-->The name 'Google' is a spelling error.The founders of the site thought
they were going for 'Googol'.
2-->The reason the Google page is so bare is because the founders didn't
know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.
3-->Google started as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
when they were 24 and 23 years old respectively.
4-->Google receives about 200 million search queries each day from every part of the world,
including Antartica and Vatican.
5-->In the earliest stage of Google,there was no the submit button
rather a hit on the ENTER key.
6-->You can have the Google home page set up in 88 different languages
-including Urdu,Latin and Klingon.
7-->It would take 5,707 years for a person to search Google's 3 billion pages.
The Google software does it in .5 seconds.
8-->The logos that appear on the Google homepage during noteworthy days
are called Google Doodle.
9-->You've heard of Google Earth,but not many know there is a site called
Google Moon,Which maps the lunar surface.
10-->Keyhole,the satellite imaging company that Google acquired in
October 2004,was funded by the CIA.
Source:Times of India
Thursday,March 29,2007
Please forgive me if i posted this thread in wrong section as I didn't know where to post.
they were going for 'Googol'.
2-->The reason the Google page is so bare is because the founders didn't
know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.
3-->Google started as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
when they were 24 and 23 years old respectively.
4-->Google receives about 200 million search queries each day from every part of the world,
including Antartica and Vatican.
5-->In the earliest stage of Google,there was no the submit button
rather a hit on the ENTER key.
6-->You can have the Google home page set up in 88 different languages
-including Urdu,Latin and Klingon.
7-->It would take 5,707 years for a person to search Google's 3 billion pages.
The Google software does it in .5 seconds.
8-->The logos that appear on the Google homepage during noteworthy days
are called Google Doodle.
9-->You've heard of Google Earth,but not many know there is a site called
Google Moon,Which maps the lunar surface.
10-->Keyhole,the satellite imaging company that Google acquired in
October 2004,was funded by the CIA.
Source:Times of India
Thursday,March 29,2007
Please forgive me if i posted this thread in wrong section as I didn't know where to post.
, missed that somehow...
