1. The young energetic co-founders of
Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin met
at Stanford University in 1995. By 1996, they had built a search engine
(initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of
individual webpages.
2. Google Inc. founded the giant mail
company Gmail on April Fools' Day in 2004. Their
approach to emailing services included features like speedy search, huge
amounts of storage and threaded messages.
3. Google has not always been successful
in its projects some of its major projects like Google Wave they admit it was a
dead end mission. They stopped to develop the service since August 2010.
4. David Filo (Co- Founder
of Yahoo) neglected
the proposal when Larry Page and Sergey Brin approached him for a new search
engine they have developed later on Google. Andy Bechtolsheim Sun co –founder
saw the opportunity and issued a cheque for US$
100,000 to be pumped in to
the project.
5. In 2006, Google acquired
online video sharing site YouTube. Today 60 hours of video are uploaded to the site every
minute. Cat videos, citizen journalism, political candidacy and double rainbows
have never been the same.
6. Google has evolved from 9,800 average
searches per day in their first official year in 1998 to the current number
which hits 4.7 billion average searches per day
throughout the world.
7. Google has more than 70 offices in
more than 40 countries around the globe all of them possess some common features: murals and decorations
expressing local personality; Googlers sharing cubes, yurts and
"huddles"; video games, pool tables and pianos; cafes and
"microkitchens" stocked with healthy food; and good old fashioned
whiteboards for spur-of-the-moment brainstorming.
8. Google’s Android mobile operating
system is the world’s leading smart phone platform surpassing Nokia and Apple with a 33% share
9. The CEO
for ‘Excite’ George Bell rejected to buy Google when it was
offered to him for $1 million when Brin and Page were finding the search engine
taking up to much time from their
research in 1999
1. Almost 97 percent of Google revenue is
coming from advertising even though Google has so many ways of attaining their
revenues.
TECH360 Correspondent
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