10 Interesting Facts About Google

#1 The glorious history of Google

starts with two students Larry Page  23  and Sergey Brin 24, who were pursuing their Ph.D. at Stanford University, when they got the  idea to create a new search engine. Supposedly, Larry Page and Sergey Brin did not like each other initially. They thought they have nothing in common, but with time they learned life lessons together, they went on to become best friends for life. This was perhaps a rather strange way of starting a venture as big as Google.

#2 Over the years, the founders still prefer 

Over the years, the founders still prefer and insist to keep the home page simple and they insist that the words on the home page do not exceed 28 words.

#3 Google is an international company, with

its homepage available in 88 different languages, making it a company that respects and understands international requirements.

#4 The name Google was a misspelling

 The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’

#5 Google’s headquarters are known as 

the Googleplex. Googleplex combines the words Google and complex. It's also a play on the world googolplex which is a huge number ( A googol is 10¹⁰⁰ a googolplex is 10 to the power of googol!)

#6 Google offices do not have 

a dress code. A Googler can wear anything to the office. even bodypaint...

#7 Google encourages its engineers to spend 

20% of their time on ideas of their own. Google has many products that came out of this 20% idea.

#8 Did you know that you can make phone calls with Gmail?

It is a very interesting and probably unknown fact that in the US, one can make calls to any phone, directly from their Gmail account. This is really a great feature because calls within US and Canada are free.

#9 Google has designed driverless cars 

based around a modified Toyota Prius.  Google lobbied the Nevada state to pass laws to allow driverless vehicles so Google were granted a licence to test their cars in Nevada.
  

#10 Google first tweet

Google’s first tweet was “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.” It means i am feeling lucky in binary code.