Things you didn't know about GOOGLE

[Cool G5]

1-->The name 'Google' is a spelling error.The founders of the site thought
they were going for 'Googol'.

2-->The reason the Google page is so bare is because the founders didn't
know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.

3-->Google started as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
when they were 24 and 23 years old respectively.

4-->Google receives about 200 million search queries each day from every part of the world,
including Antartica and Vatican.

5-->In the earliest stage of Google,there was no the submit button
rather a hit on the ENTER key.

6-->You can have the Google home page set up in 88 different languages
-including Urdu,Latin and Klingon.

7-->It would take 5,707 years for a person to search Google's 3 billion pages.
The Google software does it in .5 seconds.

8-->The logos that appear on the Google homepage during noteworthy days
are called Google Doodle.

9-->You've heard of Google Earth,but not many know there is a site called
Google Moon,Which maps the lunar surface.

10-->Keyhole,the satellite imaging company that Google acquired in
October 2004,was funded by the CIA.

Source:Times of India
Thursday,March 29,2007



Please forgive me if i posted this thread in wrong section as I didn't know where to post.

[delivi]

wow that is a cool collection of information, but I knew them all before.

Anyhow they'll be helpful for any Google Newbies.

[nepcker]

I knew them all.

Thanks anyway.

[koolbluez]

knew all.. xcept that the logos were called Google Doodle , missed that somehow...

Hey.. didja check out the Paper Archive of Google

[phreak0ut]

^^@Koolbluez thanks a lot for letting us know about the Gmail Paper. Was searching for it here. I still don't see the button in my mail. When is it gonna be out full fledged?

[Vyasram]

man, u seriously believe it on april 1.

whenever google markets something with testimonials from nerd like creatures, it's an april fools' joke

[ilugd]

Actually coolbluez, i think that is your idea of an april fool prank?

[Vyasram]

no itz google's idea

[koolbluez]

Tnx but no thnx.. ilugd... Google made a prank.. I continued & tried to make it as real as possible
Hey.. Vyasram... gimme some credit too.. dude... I did some Photofiltring

[knight17]

Knew everything except the last one. About the CIA involvement

Originally Posted by ilugd

Actually coolbluez, i think that is your idea of an april fool prank?

That is done by google

[sivarap]

so many google pranks this time

[piyush gupta]

Its not april fool its google fool

[Ankur Mittal]

I knew most of them except the last one about the sattelite