fifteen things you didn't know about Google welcome to techy shubham the place where future billionaires come to get inspired hallo electors and welcome to another exciting original article presented by a shubham sharma today we're revealing some interesting and surprising facts about the search engine and technology company that over a billion people rely on every day of course we're talking about Google the company with the most visited website in the world Google Inc is now a multinational technology company that offers a wide variety of Internet related services and products but in 1998 it started as an idea that two Stanford PhD students had for improving the web search process Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4th 1998 after initially trying to sell their company with no success they both decided to take Google public with an
IPO in 2004 and committed to staying
with the company through to at least
2024 they also established a
headquarters called the Googleplex in
Mountain View California Google soared
in popularity and is now used worldwide
by over a billion people daily in 2015
Google announced its plans to reorganize
its interests in a conglomerate called
alphabet Inc which is now valued at
around 500 billion dollars we know that
Google has acquired numerous companies
and expanded well beyond its search
engine capabilities some of the services
Google now offers includes Gmail Google
Translate Google Calendar Google Maps
Google Chrome Google Drive and Google+
as of 2016
Google has 70 offices in more than 40
countries and the brand itself is worth
over 100 billion dollars
so
let's take a closer look with these 15
facts you didn't know about Google
number one its original name was backrub
Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally
settled on the name backrub for their
search engine because their program
analyzed backlinks to understand how
important a website was and what other
sites it related to the name lasted
about a year until they began
brainstorming new names that would
reflect just how much data they were
indexing which leads to the next fact
number two
Google's name comes from the
mathematical term Google Google's name
came from the mathematical term Google
which is a number
that is a 1 with 100
zeros following it when page and his
office mates at Stanford began tossing
around ideas for the name a graduate
student named Sean Anderson suggested
the word Googleplex which page then
shortened to Google spelled geo gol when
anderson went to check if that domain
name had been taken he accidentally
searched for google GOOG l e instead and
page decided that that would be the name
he registered the domain on September 15
1997 in case you're wondering a
googolplex is the digit 1 followed by a
googol zeroes number 3 the original I'm
feeling lucky option cost to Google
up
to one hundred and ten million dollars
per year thanks to Google Instant the
original I'm feeling lucky option has
been changed since now Google starts
narrowing down search results as soon as
you start typing in the search box but
another reason why Google may have
decided to change this option is that it
was costing the company up to one
hundred and ten million dollars per year
since it bypassed ads to take the
searcher to the top result immediately
number four the first Google doodle was
inspired by Burning Man Google has
introduced more than 2,000 Google
doodles on their homepage to celebrate
holidays people events and achievements
the first google doodle was a burning
man stick figure that founders Larry
Page and
Sergey Brin had added to the
homepage while they were at the Burning
Man festival in Nevada in August of 1998
they wanted a creative way to let users
know that they would be away and unable
to handle any technical issues number 5
Google made an agreement with NASA
in exchange for a private runway when
Google needed a place to land their
multiple private planes including a
Boeing 767 a Boeing
757 and two
Gulfstream V's they decided to approach
their Silicon Valley neighbor NASA with
a unique proposition in exchange for
exclusive runway rights Google gives
NASA permission to use their planes to
test scientific equipment and collect
data Google gives NASA 1.3 million
dollars a year as a part of this
agreement as well in 2008 Google also
signed a 40 year deal to lease 42 acres
from NASA at a cost of three point six
six million dollars per year in order to
build a new Googleplex headquarters
number six Google owns common
misspellings of its own name google has
made a point to buy the domain names of
common misspellings of their site such
as WWE goggle comm with an extra Oh WWE
Google
comm with 100 and WWE goal with
goog LR comm number 7 Google rents goats
to mow the lawn of their headquarters
Google is a green community that is
concerned about the environment and one
of the unique ways they hope to lessen
their carbon footprint is by renting
goats to mow their lawn every now and
then the company
rents 200 goats for a
week at a time to trim their lawn eat
the weeds and clear out some of the
brush number 8 the founders weren't
happy when Google was added to the
dictionary in 2006 the merriam-webster
and Oxford English dictionary's included
the definition for Google for the first
time but the heads of Google weren't
particularly excited about it in a blog
post the company said we'd like to make
it clear that you should please only use
Google when you're actually referring to
Google Inc and our services reportedly
the Google founders were concerned
because they had a brand to respect and
were afraid that the word Google
would
slipped from the trademark status into
common usage number 9
there are over 2.3 million google
searches per second according to the
2016 stats there are over 100 billion
google searches per month
with an average of 2.3 million Google
searches per second there are over two
trillion searches annually up
considerably from 1999 when they first
reported 1 billion annual searches
number 10 Jeff Bezos
was one of the
first investors in Google Google
received their first amount of funding
in 1998 before the company was
incorporated the very first investment
was $100,000 given by Andy Bechtel Shyne
who is the co-founder of Sun
Microsystems later that same year
amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos was among
three angel investors that got in early
on funding the future 100 billion dollar
company if you want to find out more
about the amazon.com founder click on
the upper right hand corner to check out
our video of 15 things you
didn't know
about Jeff Bezos
number 11 stanford holds the patent for
Google's PageRank algorithm Stanford
University is a prestigious school and
several successful companies like Cisco
hewlett-packard Yahoo and of course
Google were started by Stanford students
Stanford stands to gain a lot by
encouraging innovation because by law
any discovery or invention that was made
with Stanford resources belongs to
Stanford not their inventor this is why
Stanford owns the patent for PageRank
the central algorithm that Google relies
on Google made an arrangement with
Stanford to gain exclusive rights to the
patent technology in exchange for 1.8
million shares of Google the university
sold these shares in 2005 for 336
million dollars number 12
Google was fined 2.7 billion dollars for
violating antitrust laws in January 2017
Google was fined a record 2.7 billion
dollars by European Union regulators for
manipulating their search results the
regulators found that Google denied
users a genuine choice by unfairly
favoring their own shopping platform in
search results which violated EU
antitrust laws the 2.7 billion
represented
just over two point five
percent of Google's 2016 revenue Google
denied the charges and said they were
looking at appeal options the previous
highest antitrust fine was
1.2 billion dollars imposed on Intel in
2009 and Intel is still trying to
overturn that decision in 2017 number 13
you can set your google language to
Klingon elmer fudd and other unique
options if you go to the search settings
on the google homepage you'll see that
google is available in a wide variety of
the world's languages but you'll also
find a few very unique options that
might surprise you you can change your
language settings to Klingon elmer fudd
and pirate for example number 14 yahoo
AltaVista and excite all declined to buy
google for 1 million dollars the
founders of Google were not really
interested in running their own business
so they decided to try to sell the
company back in 1999 they approached a
company called excite to see if they
would be interested in purchasing
Google
for 1 million dollars but the CEO
declined the offer he also declined to
buy the company at a lowered price of
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Google also approached Yahoo and Alta
Vista in 1998 but both companies
declined to pay 1 million dollars for
the startup in 2002 Yahoo again declined
an offer to buy Google for 5 billion
dollars and instead made a counteroffer
for 3 billion which was turned down 15
years later the Google brand is worth
over 100 billion dollars number 15
Google replaced Apple as the most
valuable brand in the world in 2017
Apple has held the top spot on the list
of the most valuable brands in the world
since 2011 but Google was able to take
that spot from them in 2017 Google's
monetary value increased 24 percent from
the previous year to a total of 109
point five billion dollars in 2016 and
apples monetary value dropped from one
hundred and forty five point nine
billion to one hundred seven point 1
billion in 2016
this allowed Google to come in first but
only by two point four billion dollars
and here's your question of the day now
that you've learned more about Google
we'd like to know how much do you use
Google every day let us know in the
comments still here here's the bonus
fact just for you Google bought YouTube
in 2006 for 1.65 billion dollars the
negotiations only took a week and the
deal was made when executives from Yahoo
Google and YouTube met at a Denny's
restaurant in Palo Alto California thank
you for spending some time with us thank you so much for watching and we'll see you back
tomorrow
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