From the last century, people introduced to the internet. As the internet has improved over the past year, people are easily accessible towards the internet. 4 September 1998, Google came across the internet. Initially, Google has also taken the time to make a place over the internet. It was a go-to-verb that merely fetched stuff from the internet. Over time, Google augmented itself into the big billion-dollar brand that we are familiar with Google. So, here we are talking regarding some less known facts about google that all must know. We are also explaining why do they matter?

People still are not familiar with the little known facts about Google mentioned below:

Google Named As BackRub

Page and Brin got together and introduced a “web crawler” concept named BackRub. When BackRub came, people thought that it came to hold the backlinks to the internet. BackRub linked itself with Page and Brin’s “90’s-tactics homepages”. They lived on Standford’s server for a year to build the bandwidth.

Google Is Misspelt From “Googol”

Page and Brin firstly named it into BackRub. They were pretty sure about Google as they knew that it would gain more popularity. The term google derived from googol. Googol is a mathematician term where the numeral is followed by 100 zeros. Google, named after googol, stands for the untold data delivered to the people while they search.

Google’s Office

After becoming a multi-billionaire, google has a fascinating office where aspirants are dying to get work. But it was not always this Google had an office was Susan Wojcicki’s garage on Santa Margarita Ave. in Menlo Park, Calif. Wojcicki, sister of 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki, in google was the first marketing management and 16th employee. Now Susan Wojcicki YouTube’s CEO.

Google In New York

Google drew back its sub arms from at a Starbucks in New York cities in 2000. Initially, Google sales term run by only one person. Today Google has employees from New York in a vast amount and has turned into a million square feet property where the property relies upon.

The Colorful Bikes Of Google

In 2007, Google’s Googleplex had colorful bikes. The employees of the company utilize these bikes as they do not have locks in them. A thousand primary bikes with baskets and beach-friendly, name as G-bikes, can cover up to two-mile of distance. After taking a ride, the employees take the bike to their closest office for others.

Google Sold Itself

Google sold itself for one million dollars in 1999. They did not have any idea that the company would turn into a multi-billion brand. He became famous in the business world for not making the worst decisions in business.

Google Even Rented Goats!

Google rented goats in the past. There were 200 goats, a shepherd, and a Border Coolie dog. And, it rent the goats from a company called California Grazing. It helped to cut down the ample amount of weeds and brushes in Google headquarters.

Gmail

The firm started giving free e-mail accounts to beta users in 2004. And after a long survey, in 2007, Gmail began its services to the public. It was almost better than all the other e-mail services. So, to make it big, they decided to give free 1 Gigabyte of storage on the Google network with every Gmail account. It also facilitates everyone to find the e-mails instantly that too, without storing them and sorting them out. The Gmail search is as fast as a Google search. Therefore, the USP of Gmail account is, it offers an independent e-mail address regardless of any particular Internet Service Provider. It provided an unprecedented one gigabyte of free e-mail space. At present, Google has expanded the storage given to the public.

Pet-Friendly Office

It is one of the earliest companies which has a dog-friendly nature. This friendliness came from a dog called Yoshika, and it is of Leonberger breed.

Google Image

The company took the initiative to make a separate Google Image Search Engine in 2001.

Free Wi-Fi In California

The company provides Mountain View, the California town, with free Wi-Fi. And, it is a city-wide free Wi-Fi facility. It encouraged people to use the internet efficiently.

The Revenue

Google took it to maintain a clear idea between search results and ads. The company even wanted to keep the home page of Google free from ads. For maintaining a high-quality content of user-friendly experience, Google even got against any pop-ups or graphics in the usage. Now, ads are brief, looks interesting, with just one headline, a link, and a brief description. Advertisers can sign up online itself. Instead of just displaying one ad from the vendor who is willing to pay the most, Google renewed its ads based on one formula, which took it into account. It depends on how much someone offers to pay and how often computer users clicked on an ad. Google trusted users to rank all the ads. It is Consumer pull rather than business push.

Google’s stated goal is to help millions of people gain access to information that will lead to healthier and smarter living through the prevention and cure of a wide range of problems in every aspect. Today Google is one of the first solutions to every problem.

Penned by Piyali Das
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