On Tuesday, September 4th, Google celebrated its 20th anniversary. Here are some interesting facts you might not know about one of the most successful corporations in the world.
- Larry page and Sergey Brin created their search engine in 1996. However, when he was called BackRub.
- In the end the name was decided to change to Google — after the number «googol» (one with a hundred zeros).
- In fact, Google 3 day of birth: 15 September 1997-on (registration google.com), September 4, 1998 (registration Google Inc.) and 27 September 1998 (launch Google Search).
The Google headquarters in San Francisco. shutterstock.
- Over the years, Google had 7 logos…
- …And more than 2 thousand Ludlow.
- Speaking of dullah: the first appeared in 1998. It was reported by users that all Google employees the day off, and they on occasion went to Burning Man.
Here’s our Burning Man!
- The motto of Google «do No evil» (Don’t be evil).
- The first office was a garage in Menlo Park (CA). This garage belonged to Susan Wojcicki — the current Director-General YouTube.
- And the first Google server was made of LEGO parts.
- The company now has over 60 thousand employees in 50 countries. And, incidentally, it no longer makes servers out of LEGO. (Well, at least, so says Google.)
