Google’s 25th birthday: The best friend Google is celebrating its 25th birthday today. Check out this article for some super crazy facts about the search giant on its silver jubilee.
Twinkle Updated: 27 Sep 2023 at 09:15 IST
Happy 25th Birthday Google!!
Google’s 25th birthday: Google celebrates its 25th birthday with a doodle. The search giant began as a Stanford University research project before being founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. Google was designed to manage the vast amount of information on the Internet. Later, his ad-based revenue strategy went public in 2004 as it quickly gained traction. Over time, it developed services beyond search, including Gmail, Android, and Chrome. Alphabet Inc. became the parent company of Google after a corporate restructuring in 2015. Today, Google is a major player in the global digital industry with a focus on hardware, search, advertising and cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and self-driving cars.
How old is Google?
11 interesting facts about Google
- Google was formerly known as Backrub. The company later changed its name to Google, a misspelling of the word googol. The term refers to the mathematical concept ‘one and one hundred zero’, which symbolizes the company’s goal to make all information available to everyone.
- About 8.5 billion searches are performed on Google every day. In 2022, the world experienced a search frenzy with 99,000 searches per second, which is astounding. Also, 15% of all Google searches are always unique.
- Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Oxford English Dictionary recognized “Google” as a verb in 2006. The fact that “Googling” has become the default term for conducting online searches shows how ingrained Google has become in our daily lives.
- Google’s first office was in the garage of Susan Wojcicki, who founded YouTube. A specially designed Lego cabinet was used to store the first Google server.
- To achieve its goal of net zero emissions across all operations and value chains by 2030, Google has invested in “adaptive reuse projects,” in which new offices are built in existing structures rather than in new buildings.
- In 2001, Google opened its first foreign office in Japan in Tokyo, and in 2002 it opened a second one in Hamburg, Germany. They now have offices and data center locations in more than 200 cities worldwide and on six continents.
- In Belo Horizonte, the first urban farm in Latin America is located in the same building as the Google office in Brazil. Therefore, all dishes served here are fresh from the farm.
- GBikes were introduced in 2007 to help employees at Google. And about 1.9 million trips were successfully completed in 2019 across the entire GBike fleet, totaling 765,000 miles—or more than 31 Earth rotations!
- The ‘Google Doodle’ was on the homepage in 1998 to celebrate the Burning Man Festival. The founders of the company wanted everyone to understand their absence from the office.
- There is a huge T-Rex statue in the Googleplex that is often covered in flamingos. It serves as a reminder to Google staff to prevent the company from going out of business (extinction).
- The first major tech company to provide free meals and allow employees to bring their dogs to work was Google. Google’s nature-inspired offices hire goats to cut the grass instead of lawnmowers.
Scroll down the tweets below to learn more about Google’s 25th anniversary:
Google turns 25 this month 🎉 CEO @SundarPichai looks back at the big questions that got us to where we are today and what the next 25 years might look like ↓ https://t.co/gftKdUAE9x
— Google (@Google)
September 5, 2023
Looking back at some birthday drawings as we look forward to celebrating our 25th birthday tomorrow 🥹🎂#GoogleDoodle pic.twitter.com/htqszNy5da
— Google India (@GoogleIndia)
September 26, 2023
Happy birthday, Google!!
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Questions
What are the 5 most interesting facts?
Google started as a university project. His first office was in a garage. Google was initially called Backrub. People who work at Google are known as Googlers. ‘Googling’ is now the default term used to describe web searches.
What is the most interesting fact on Google?
Google hires goats to cut grass instead of lawnmowers.
What’s interesting about Google?
The most popular search giant Google started in a garage.
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Source: HIS Education