Interesting Useful Information About Google : Search Engine Company

Google is Originally Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 15 September 1997 . Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin and Lawrence Edward Page is a Russian-American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around.

By some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub.

Google is most used most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, handling more than three billion searches each day. Google search is available in 123 languages. It is written c, c++, python language.

Competitors of Google include Baidu and Soso.com in China; Naver.com and Daum.net in South Korea; Yandex in Russia; Seznam.cz in the Czech Republic; Yahoo in Japan, Taiwan and the US, as well as Bing and DuckDuckGo. Some smaller search engines offer facilities not available with Google, e.g. not storing any private or tracking information; one such search engine is Ixquick

Google has acquired 24 companies in 2014 alone — that’s two companies a month.

Some Interesting Facts About Google Search: –

1. Originally meant to be called “Googol,” investors spelled it “Google” on a check and it stuck.

 

2. Go to Google homepage and type the words “I want to commit suicide”. Above all the search results, Google provides the Suicide Helpline number of your country.

 

3. The company’s unofficial motto is “Don’t be evil.”

 

4. Susan Wojcicki rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were creating Google, later became the CEO of YouTube.

 

5. Google has photographed 5 million miles of road for its Street View maps.

 

6. Google’s search index is more 100 million gigabytes in size. It would take 100,000 one-terabyte personal drives to contain the same amount of data.

 

7. The world watches 450,000 years of YouTube videos each month, over twice as long as modern humans have existed.

 

8. Its main page is so sparse because Sergey Brin and Larry Page didn’t know HTML. For a long time, you could only search by hitting the return key – it didn’t even have a submit button.

 

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

 

• On average, Google has acquired more than one company every week since 2010.

 

• In 2011, 96% of Google’s $37.9 billion revenue came from advertising alone.

 

• Google takes over 200 factors into account before delivering you the best results to any query in a fraction of a second.

 

• Larry Page and Sergey Brin made the first Google Doodle in August 1998. They were heading to Burning Man in the Nevada desert, and wanted people to know where the Google crew would be for a few days, so they added the festival’s logo.

 

• Larry and Sergey’s private planes have runways in NASA, where no other planes are allowed to land

 

• Google is internet’s most visited website according to Alexa.

 

• Google’s first tweet was in binary format which means “I’m feeling lucky”.

 

• Google site traffic is doubled, when Google introduced its “Did you mean?”.

 

• Google purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in 2011, whereas it sold it for $2.91 billion in 2014.

 

• Google’s first chef Charlie Ayers, (hired in 1999) quit Google and opened his own restaurant in 2005

 

• The index of Google is 3 times larger than Yahoo’s index or MSN’s index.

 

Products of Google: –

1. Google Search
2. YouTube
3. Android OS
4. Gmail
5. Google Calendar
6. Google Chrome
7. Google Maps
8. Google Translate
9. Blogger
10. Google Analytics
11. Google+
12. Google Play
13. Picasa
14. Google Drive
15. Google Nexus phones
16. Google Webmaster tools
17. Google Alerts
18. Google Books
19. Google Custom Search
20. Google Finance
21. Google Groups
22. Google Hotel Finder
23. Google Flights
24. Google Image Search
25. Language Tools
26. Google News
27. Google Patent Search
28. Google Scholar
29. Google Shopping
30. Suggest – auto-completion
31. AdMob
32. Google AdSense
33. Google AdWords
34. AdWords Express
35. DoubleClick
36. Google Consumer Surveys
37. Google Correlate
38. Freebase
39. Google Trends
40. Google Earth
41. Google Tez
42. Google Currents

Some Latest News of Google –

There’s good news for Google  Chrome users, the latest version of the world’s most popular web browser has arrived with a new feature that prevents websites from automatically playing sound. That means that pre-loaded videos, and other content that involves sound, won’t blare out unless you specifically choose to enable it to.

Sources inform “Globes” that on May 7 2018, search engine company Google will launch Google Shopping, a feature on its search results page that includes links for buying products according to the search words typed by web surfers.

Google will charge money for advertising on Google Shopping, and wants to include referrals to websites of all types: large and small, Israeli and international. Clicking on each link puts the surfer on the shopping page. The advertisement includes a picture of the product, its price, and opinions about it written by web surfers.