13 Crazy Facts About Google Which You Don't Know !

Google is the most visited website on the planet, but you already knew that, right? However, do you know that Google does 65k+ searches every second? And it is not the only fascinating fact about Google — it has many less-known facts and secrets that are hardly widely known. Do you want to know? Dive in.

I am surprised by the fact that we use Google to search a ton of information every day, and yet we know so little about it.

1. Google’s initial name was “BackRub“, referring to its underlying algorithm of checking backlinks when its founders began working on their search engine in 1995. They decided to turn its name to “Google!” in 1997.

2. Google acquires its name from the word “googol“ — a mathematical term representing one followed by 100 zeros. It signifies the search engine’s capacity to offer access to the enormous information over the Internet.

3. Larry Page’s web page at Stanford was the first link indexed by Google.

4. Stanford University holds the patent to “PageRank“, the algorithm of Google, which is a method to measure the importance of a site. Google handed it over 1.8 million shares of its company to gain the exclusive rights of the patent.

5. Sun Microsystems co-founder, Andy Bechtolsheim, was the first investor of Google, initially invested $100k in Google during August 1998.
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6. The Original Google Storage, i.e., the first storage of Google, was built of 10 4GB hard drives cased using Legos, totaling to 40GB. It was used to store the search engine’s indexed data during the early days of Google.

7. Google launched its first homepage in 1998 with an exclamation mark like that of “Yahoo!” after a year of registering its domain name “google.com”.

8. Google’s first doodle was a stick figure drawing placed behind the second ‘o’ of “Google” indicating the “out of office” message on the day of “Burning Man Festival”. It was published on August 30, 1998, on Google’s homepage.

9. MentalPlex, the mind reading ability to search, was the Google’s first hoax for April Fools’ Day. It invited users to stare at an animated image and asked them to project a mental picture of what they wish to search on Google.

10. Google was declared the best search engine in June 2000, in a search and portal site tracking research done by NPD, an independent research company.

11. Yahoo! declined Google’s offer for infusion of cash, and later in 2002, Yahoo! wanted to buy it for $3 billion, but this time, Google refused it.

12. Google’s first tweet was “I’m Feeling Lucky” in the binary code, which is the two-symbol (0 and 1) data representation system used in computers.

13. PAC-MAN became Google’s first ever playable doodle on May 21, 2010, for the day being the 30th anniversary of the arcade game.