Google, the big name in IT Giants, one of the largest, most famous and most sought company in the world. We all know about Google being a great search engine and that it earns a lot from advertisements, but I bet you won't be knowing many things mentioned below about Google.
Rome wasn't built in a day nor was Google, this big name didn't just ended the domination of Yahoo and Bing but even overtook them in quite a different lot of ways.
So here we compile our list for top 10 Mind blowing Google Facts that you wouldn't have known till now, mind you here we won't be mentioning many commonly known facts.
Now just buckle up as we're diving straight into the list.
#10. Under Water Life with Google
Yes, you can now even watch under water life and under water images using Google Maps and Google Earth, you can find about the position and movement of reefs, corals and other aquatic flora and fauna just by searching on Google.
Google is definitely "inno-water-ive" in its approaches ;-)
#9. Searching on Google, looks easy?
We all know that millions of searches are done on Google per minute, but do you know how hard is really the Google Searches in its algorithm.
It performs more than 200 tasks just to display one result, well that why SEO is so important for bloggers and website holders.
Mind you that it displays so many results according to those 200 specifications, and that too in a quarter of second.
Well that's, how fast it overtook Yahoo and Bing :)
#8. Google owns its misspells
Google owns its misspells just for you, if you type any of the above shown spellings on your browser you will be straightly leading the Google home page.
Is this what you call reverse technology?
#7. Google wants you to spend less time on Google!
Google has always been one of the most used and sought search engine owing to different aspects, it has good and relevant search results and that too in minimum time.
Google has minimized the time you spend on searching by making the search results a lot faster than other search engines, and hence you can freely and quickly search on google.
#6. ABCD of Google
A - Alphabet / Android / AdSense / Analytics / Ara / AdMob / Alerts
B - Blogger / Boston Dynamics / Books
C - Calico / Cardboard / Capital
D - Drive / DeepMind / Design / DoubleClick
E - Earth / Express
F - Fiber / Fi / Flights / FeedBurner / Firebase / Finance
G - Google / Gmail / Glass / Groups
H - Hangouts
I - Images / Ingress / Inbox / Invite Media
K - Keep/ Kotlin
L - Life Sciences / Local / Loon
M - Maps / My Business / Makani
N - Nest / News / Nexus / Now
O - Offers
P - Plus / Play / Photos / Picasa / Pixate / Patents
Q - (Nexus) Q
R - Refine / reCaptcha
S- Search / Shopping / SageTV /Stackdriver / Skybox / Skia / Scholar
T- Translate / Tango
U - URL shortener
V - Voice / Ventures / VirusTotal / Video
W - Wallet / Wing
X - X Labs
Y - YouTube
Z - Project Z / Zagat
#5. If you had a camel, you could have been hired by Google!
Well, yeah it is true, with some luck of course!
You could have been the person with the camel for taking the desert street view for Google. That man is one of those person who was recruited by Google for his camel!
Irony huh,!
#4. Easter Eggs for Google
- Search "Askew" or "Tilt".
Google will tilt the whole page a little for you!
- Search "Do a Barrel Roll".
Watch Google doing a Barrel Roll for you!
- Search "Zerg Rush".
Just enjoy!
- Search "Recursion".
Google will show what Recursion really means by asking you "did you mean Recursion?"
#3. I bet you wish to be a Noogler
Google newly appointed employees are given a specific name, that is Noogler. They even get a shirt and a cap on which Noogler is written.
They get the name Googler afterwards! I definitely would love to be a Noogler for a while.
#2. Let's Backrub this
Google was to be named Backrub, by Larry Page initially but then he chose the misspell of Googol that means 10 raised to 100.
Imagine saying, I know this because I have Backrubbed it!
#1. Pity, CEO of Excite
Google wanted to sell itself for $1.6 Million in 1999, and the CEO of Excite rejected the offer saying it was way over-priced.
Well as of now Google is worth more than $500 Billion!
Wondering how bad your decision can really be? Ask Excite's CEO.
There you have it, Top 10 Mind blowing facts about Google. I bet you definitely found some great facts about a big IT giant today.
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Finding some unknown great facts is really one of the most amazing thing to do for a break time, you learn and get to know about the world even more, also stay tuned for the next Top 10 list.
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