Google...The 8th Wonder Of The World

[object Object],[object Object],Google started as a research project at Stanford University, created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively Larry Sergey

[object Object],[object Object],Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.

[object Object],[object Object],Gmail was used internally for nearly 2years prior to launch to the public

[object Object],[object Object],Google has the largest network of translators in the world

[object Object],[object Object],Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects.

[object Object],[object Object],Google's index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising billions of web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second.

[object Object],[object Object],Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica .

[object Object],[object Object],Users can restrict their searches for content in 35 non-English languages, including Chinese, Greek, Icelandic, Hebrew, Hungarian and Estonian.

[object Object],[object Object],Google has a world-class staff of more than 2,668 employees known as Googlers. The company headquarters is called the Googleplex.

[object Object],[object Object],The size of googleplex / google headquarters is 129619 square meters, or 32.03 acres

[object Object],[object Object],Google Headquarters have their own Restaurant with Organic Meals that are served to all employees FREE.

[object Object],[object Object],Google invented a special scanner to digitize 15 million library books and have them published on their engine

[object Object],[object Object],They have 200,000 computers at their headquarters to cater for the massive amount of bandwidth needed to generate and support the millions of users online.

[object Object],[object Object],Just so you know: “˜to google’ became a verb in 2006 when both Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary as well as the Oxford English Dictionary recognized it. It of course means – to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.

[object Object],[object Object],How much energy does a single Google Search take up? Google says it’s about 1KJ (Kilo Joules). In green terms, it’s approximately equal to .2g of CO2 emitted per search.

[object Object],[object Object],Google has 450,000 servers collected data centers scattered around the world

[object Object],[object Object],When Google started it indexed 25,000 web pages. Today Google indexes billions of web pages and each time it grows by 10-25%.

[object Object],[object Object],57% of American kids say ‘Google’ as their first word.

[object Object],[object Object],97% of Google Revenue comes from their advertising services.

[object Object],[object Object],As of December 2009, Google’s assets were valued at $40.5 billion.

[object Object],[object Object],There isn’t any restriction for proper dress code in the Google office. This may include pajamas and even super hero costumes.

[object Object],[object Object],It would take 5,707 years to do a manual search of Google's 3 billion Web pages, at one minute a page

Lantern Festival - (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan) It usually takes Google 0.5 second to search its database.

[object Object],[object Object],In 2007 Google announced it will award $20 million to the 1st private team which builds a robot — and puts it on the moon.

[object Object],[object Object],The 3 largest traffic drivers for Gmail are Google, Facebook — and Yahoo! Mail…

[object Object],[object Object],Google started off its first operations in a rented Garage.

[object Object],[object Object],Google’s first ever April Fool’s joke went online on April 1st, 2000 and was called “MentalPlex” – Google’s ability to read your mind .

[object Object],[object Object],In 1999, when Google moved to their Paolo Alto office, there were only 19 employees in the company. Today there are over 2,700 Googlers.

[object Object],[object Object],It will take Google 300 years to put the entire world’s information online

[object Object],[object Object],Google's main server is cast from purest gold, has a platinum keyboard and a display made from 20 kg of diamonds.

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