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On Friday, Google celebrates it’s 21st birthday. To celebrate the milestone, the tech company, like always, has come up with a quirky google doodle – only this time, the doodle is but a throwback to an old boxy computer with the iconic Google search screen marked with a timestamp dated to September 27, 1998.
It’s been 21-long-years of searching and crawling the web for the search engine portal. But long before Google became the internet giant that it is today and a whopping $800 billion worth business, it was just a research project started by Stanford graduates Larry Page and Sergey Brin, from their dorm room in 1995.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, usually marks its birthday on September 27 each year, although in 2005 it marked the anniversary a day earlier. To add to the confusion, Google sent out their celebratory doodle on September 8 in 2003, and a day earlier in 2004.
As luck would have it, the web crawler was successful in exploring the internet and their idea took off, going through a series of developments, to be finally incorporated as a privately-held company in 1998.
Today, Google counts itself among the Big Four technology companies – Amazon, Apple, and Facebook – with a chain of products to its credit including Gmail, Google Drive, Maps, Earth, Street View, YouTube, Google Photos, Google Chrome browser, and the Android OS.
While there’s little that people don’t know about the company in the age of Google, here are a few lesser-known facts that might pique your curiosity.
1. The name “Google” is a play on the mathematical term “googol”, which is represented by the number 1 followed by a hundred zeroes.
Larry Page & Sergey Brin
2. Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who met by chance, had initially christened the search engine BackRub. In case, you are wondering why, it is believed that “BackRub” was nothing but a nod to retrieving backlinks – Page and Brin’s original research project.
3. In an archetypal Silicon Valley style, Google too was started out of a garage, that too Susan Wojcicki’s garage in Menlo Park, California. Wojcicki, for the uninitiated, was Google’s first marketing manager and she is also the CEO of YouTube.
4. Google, which owns around 88.61 percent of search engines’ market share globally, is also among the many websites blocked in China.
5. Googleplex is the name of Google’s headquarter in Silicon Valley. The tech company boasts a pet-friendly office since the very beginning.