On 27th September, the most favored search-engine turned 21 years. However, some interesting facts about this search engine, which users might not know are mentioned below:
- Google is the most used search engine in the world.
- Two college students, Sergey Bin and Larry Page started Google. They wanted to develop a site that would rank pages depending on the number of pages that would link to the main page.
- Google came from the term ‘Googol’. The creators wanted to show the vast amount of data that is being searched.
- To celebrate the 1998 Burning Man Festival, the first Google Doodle was created.
- Most of the memorable doodles celebrated the water discovery on the Moon and the birthday of John Lennon’s.
- Google’s first server was stored within a custom case made of Lego.
- Google’s headquarter is known as the Googleplex and is based in Silicon Valley.
- Within Googleplex, a giant dinosaur statue of T-Rex is present.
- In July 2001, Google Image Search was started. The motivation was the green Versace dress which was worn by Jennifer Lopez for the Grammy Awards.
- In 2004, on April fool’s Day, G-mail service was announced.
- YouTube became a part of the Google family in the year 2006.