Interesting facts about Google that you didn't know - AnonyViet

Google has redefined the Internet world order with the world’s largest and most powerful search engine today and its accompanying free services such as Gmail, Photos. It’s been more than 20 years since it was born, but we still know too little about one of the world’s biggest companies. This article will list 14 interesting facts about Google that you may not know.

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With the aim of organizing the world’s information and making it at your fingertips, Larry Page and Sergey Brin started a research project in 1996 that we now call Google. It’s another rich story of a startup that was originally nicknamed “BackRub”.

According to surveys, Google’s search market share is about 92% on the Internet and it has acquired more than 230 companies. Google is so famous that with google nice “go google” has become a verb today. Google owns many subsidiaries, and the initials of those subsidiaries suffice from AZ, thus changing itself as a company to Alphabet. List of Google product names from A to Z:

A – Alphabet / Android / AdSense / Analytics / Ara / AdMob / Alerts
B – Blogger / Boston Dynamics / Books
C – Calico / Cardboard / Capital
D – Drive / DeepMind / Design / DoubleClick
E – Earth / Express
F – Fiber / Fi / Flights / FeedBurner / Firebase / Finance
G – Google / Gmail / Glass / Groups
H – Hangouts
I – Images / Ingress / Inbox / Invite Media
J-Jump
K – Keep
L – Life Sciences / Local / Loon
M – Maps / My Business / Makani
N – Nest / News / Nexus / Now
O – Offers
P – Plus / Play / Photos / Picasa / Pixate / Patents
Q – (Nexus) Q
R – Refine / reCaptcha
S – Search / Shopping / SageTV /Stackdriver / Skybox / Skia / Scholar
T – Translate / Tango
U – N/A
V – Voice / Ventures / VirusTotal / Video
W – Wallet / Wing
X – X Labs
Y – YouTube
Z – Project Z / Zagat

And there are a lot of interesting facts about Google that you may not know, or not about Alphabet company. I will list them below.

Some interesting facts about Google!

1. Google 40 GB Database

In its early days, all of Google was in 10 4 GB hard disks. Do you know how much Google’s Database is now? About 100 million GB.

2. The confusion between Googol and Google

Googol is the definition of an incredibly large number. The two founders of Google both love math, so they decided to name the company after the huge number googol. And the company also has the mission of that huge number: to provide Internet users with a huge amount of information to google.

When the Google team searched for usable domain names, a Stanford student accidentally mistyped googol as “google” and the name that has been attached ever since.

3. Simple homepage interface

Have you ever wondered why Google has such a sparse and simple homepage? When Larry and Brin created Google, they didn’t know much about HTML to create a beautiful homepage. So they just created a simple interface for users to enter words to search.

4. Acquire new companies every week

You know why Google is so rich and innovative? Because it owns almost every other company. On average, Google has acquired a new company every week since 2010.

5. Google is not always fast

Back in 1999, when Google was a new company, it took almost a month to crawl the massive search and 50 million web pages on the internet. Fast forward to today, work can be done in seconds.

6. Do you like Google Photos? Thank you Jennifer Lopez

One of its biggest features, Google Image Search was launched in 2001 and the reason will surprise you. American actress Jennifer Lopez wore a green Versace dress and many people searched for images of this dress on Google, which the search engine could not process. That’s when Google Images was born.

7. Low scores? Great!!

Worried about low test scores? Google doesn’t care about school grades and instead looks for some real developer skills. In fact, they already have teams where 14% of employees don’t even go to college. Now, do you feel motivated?

8. Cool Google tricks

Google is smart and it’s fun. If you’re bored, Google has a bunch of cool tricks for you.

9. New search every day

Every day Google sees about 16-20% of search queries that it has never recorded before. So maybe every day new words are defined, such as teencode.

10. Computers can program themselves

Google is aggregating it all into advanced technology. It is believed that Google is developing a computer so advanced that it can program itself. God, please don’t make Skynet. The search giant has tried to create AI systems that can beat humans in the game by self-determination. It’s no surprise that Google owns the fastest computing quantum computer available today.

11. Best company to work for

A company’s employees are its greatest asset, and Google knows it. It has the best work culture and has been repeatedly voted by Fortune as the best company to work for.

Employees get free meals in the company, there is a place to sleep if you are too tired and a place to cut your hair. In the office, there is a pool table, mountain climbing, lake, game … for employees to entertain, even a sauna (sauna).

12. Google is trying to find a cure for “immortality”

Google has a subsidiary called Calico, which runs experiments to stop aging and ultimately cure death.

It is a fact that Google has been working on a number of healthcare projects to combat diseases like cancer and diabetes. Now, after the birth of Alphabet, Google is aiming to make things happen on a larger scale and plans to find ways to stop aging. This project is called Google X.