15 things you do not know on Google

Search, autonomous cars and ... goats on their corporate lawn?


Whether you realize it or not, you use Google. Even if you swear the search engine aspect, which would be a strange decision, to say the least surely that you use on Google Maps, YouTube or Chief iPhone Rival Android. (Each of these has more than one billion users.) Is your web browser chrome? Probably. After all, it's the most popular web browser, commandernearly 42% all the office web traffic. Nevertheless, we bet money although you do not know these 15 facts. And when you finished, brush on the15 things you did not know on Facebook.

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Google is not really Google

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In October 2015, Google is no longer Google. Instead, society is nowAlphabet, a more important conglomerate with many companies - Google being the greatest under its umbrella. Extensibly, according to the letter of deposit of the alphabet, this decision has been taken to allow greater autonomy to "companies that are far enough from our main Internet products", such as driverless cars and contact lenses of the Sensation of glucose and not. In fact, however, we bet it was a decision based on complicated financial reasoning. On the theme of the cars without Google's driver, we wonder if they are also ready to the road as the guys who masterOur advice for safe and efficient driving.

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Google loves pranks

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Every day of the April Fool, Google, like the master,George Clooney, does some jokes. Among the jokes this year, Google Maps turned into a game ofMs. PacmanAnd "Launched" Google Wind, a reammination of the language in the cheek of the Holland windmills, keys to avoid any cloudy and rainy day. However, their first joke dates back to 2000 and is for our money, their best. Google implored users watching a red and blue hypnosis spiral while mental focused on a search term before clicking the spiral. The spiral then led to a page of the results for"April Fool." It was called Mentalplex and it was brilliant.

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Gmail was a little an accident

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Has the legend that Google offers something called "20% of time", urging employees to spend 20% of their hours of work on projects of their own direction and design. One of these projects was something that you probably use every day: Gmail. At the time, the idea of ​​an email storage of 1 GB, or 500 times what the main service, Hotmail, offered - was scandalous. But Googler Paul Buchheit used his "20% of time" to understand it. Currently, Gmail offers a 15 GB base per user. "20% Time" is an excellent leadership board, for sure, but for others, be sure to jerk off youWhat exactly each leader first needs to know.

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Google was originally called "Backrub"

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Stanford Sergey Brin and Larry Page students founded the search engine in 1996 as a grade school project. When he was incarnate for the first time, the name was "Back massage. "(Here is an archived link For those who simply did not believe.) A year later, the co-founders decided to change the name to something that would more precisely reflect the almost unlimited potential of web research, as opposed to, you know,preliminary.

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The current name is appropriately

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Googol is a mathematical term for a number followed by 100 zeros. Incidentally, we give him just a few more years before Google's chests do not reflect their names. If you want your chests to look in the same way, plan to pick up one or twoThe 20 most lucrative side concerts there.

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"Google" is an official English language verb

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Check Merriam-Webster;This is a real entry. As the legend said, the original text read "for information about a person or something" on the World Wide Web ". But the company objected, saying that" Google "as a verb dilute the Brand, if people have used the term to describe research via another search engine, such as, for example, Yahoo the official entry now starts with "to use the Google search engine ..."

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Google is strict enough on television appearances

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An obsession with Minutiae in a dictionary entrance keeps in line with the tedious eyes of Google on how they are represented. On television, producers need explicit authorization for Google. Apparently, this is difficult to come. InYou are the worst, the company is called Zodidle. And inDevelopment stoppedThe characters say systematically to "make a" search "" and a character even causes a car "something" is obviously a Google car, but the logo is blurred. If you are a man who cares about the way it is perceived online, here's howChoose the Perfect LinkedIn Profile photo.

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But Google collaborated onThe internship

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On the other hand, Google worked in tandem with a twentieth century fox to doThe internship, Vince Vaugn and Owen Wilson Comedy of 2013 on two average age vendors in competition against whiz kids for an internship at the giant technology. Naturally,The internship Presentse Google as one of the most cool places on the planet to work. (Fun made: CEO Sergey Strand has a cameo in the movie.) As happening, like the characters of Wilson and Vaughn, career switching is one of the40 ways to make the most of your 40 years.

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Google loves food

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Perhaps proveThe internship"Spoint What Google is really the coolest place in the world at work - The company offers free foods to all employees. And it's not just a single sluggish mess hall. No, it is estimated that there is an acclaim30 separate catering establishments on the GooglePex campus - and each is fresh farm at the table, serving all, vegetarian options atMeat trolleys. (The company has constantly refused to provide an exact figure.) Discover thisreport Serious eats to really seek how much food seems-numb. And if you find yourself at the Googleplex, see if you can not follow the6 meals miracles that healthy doctors swear by their lives.

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Instead of the lawn, Google uses goats

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Seriously. When the grass on the Googleplex lawn needs to cut, Google will bring 200 goats from a company calledCalifornia Pasture. Goats will blur the grass for about a week; It's a zero emission means to keep the lawn clean and ordered. And yes - like all other employees of Google, temporary or other, goats benefit from free food: the grass.

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The button "I feel lucky" does not work anymore

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Back in the day, Google offered a button "I feel lucky" to increase the search. If a user was looking for something, they could click the button and be done automatically to the first result on the search page. This function does not work anymore. According to this, this caused the company to lose more than $ 100 million a year in advertising revenues. So they progressed the integration of an automatic filling search bar. The "I feel lucky" button can still be seen, however, on the Google homepage. If you always feel lucky - yes, in this way, be sure to blur yousex positions she needs you to try tonight.

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GoGo.com goes on Google

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Google was smart enough to tear off the areas surrounding Google.com. If you go to GoGogle.com or gooogle.com, you will be redirected to Google.com. Goggle.com, on the other hand, does not do it. In the technology, that's what they call a "typosequitter" or a site that simply benefits by aspiring the traffic of user spelling errors. In a 2011 report byBloomberg BusinessWeek, Typosquatters cost the top 250 websites of more than $ 285 million a year. Frankly, we can think at least20 more honest ways to dollar.

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Google Execs used to park at NASA

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How is your driveway? As recently as 2007, strand and the page were pledged from their shared journey, a personalized Boeing 767-200-Yes, as in the plane, on the plane, at the NASA AMES research center, AirTERIP. For this privilege, it cost guys reported $ 1.3 million a year. As a compromise, NASA must also place equipment for scientific analysis on the plane.

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Yahoo! Offered $ 3 billion for Google

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Back in 2002, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel offered Google 3 billion dollars for society. Google has transformed the offer, refusing to accept something less than $ 5 billion. How times change. Google currently has a market brochure of $ 650 billion. Yahoo is $ 48 billion. To strengthen your own clear well worth it in the future, here is Investment moves to do right now.

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This is the only website to create one of these

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