Google US and other domains are featuring a new doodle on occasion of 12’th birthday of this company. Larry Page and Sergey Brin met with each other in 1995 and started a project at Stanford University in 1996. In next 2 years, their project became a company named “Google”. In September 1998, Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki’s garage where both Larry and Sergey started indexing web pages and including them for search. In 1998, they got first check of amount $100,000 as the first investment in company by Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. Today, we all know what Google is and most of the time we use Google as a verb as well to search particular thing on web.
4 important facts about Google Inc.
1. The name “Google” came from Googol which is a mathematical term with 100’s of zeroes after 1.
2. “I feel lucky” button is rarely used by users but still Google team keeps that as they don’t want to change the look and feel of search home page.
3. Gmail (email service by Google) was used internally for more than 2 years before the public launch.
4. Craig Silverstein was the first employee hired by Larry and Sergey.
There are lot many interesting things about this awesome company and its founders. I you want to know more about Google, then google that.
Happy Birthday Google!
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