Leaders of Google worked together for long haulīefore the company went public in 2004, Eric Schmidt, the then CEO of Google and currently the executive chairman of Alphabet, and Google’s founders worked altogether for 20 years.Īn instance of Google being used a verb - “to Google” something was found in an episode of TV series “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” on October 15, 2002.
Now, it serves millions of users across the world every day.Ĩ. Google unveiled Gmail on April Fool’s Day in 2004. In 2001, Google opened gates for search queries and results in Swedish Chef lingo (called Bork Bork Bork, to be technical).ħ. Swedish Chef lingo preference in Google search Later, he became caterer of Google and eventually served 4,000 daily lunches and dinners in 10 cafes throughout its Mountain View, California.Ħ. However, the phrase was removed in 2018.Ĭharlie Ayers initially cooked for the Grateful Dead, a Rock band, in exchange for free admission to their shows. “Don’t be evil” was said to be company’s corporate code of conduct. “Don’t be evil”: Google’s unofficial motto The company was running from the garage for six months.Ĥ. In September 1998, the founders set up office of Google in a garage of their friend Susan Wojcicki on rent in Menlo Park, California.
Google first operated its office in a rented garage Many still wonders if Google was a misspelling of Googol.ģ. The search engine got the name Google from the mathematical term ‘googol’ which refers to numerical one followed by 100 zeros. It was on servers of Stanford University for more than a year. Page and Brin had named their research project as BackRub – a web crawler concept – in the year 1996 before calling it Google. Here’re some crazy facts you might not have known about Google: Over the years, the search engine has expanded its services.
Sundar Pichai took over Google’s leadership on October 24, 2015. Page and Brin registered Google as a company on September 4, 1998. The domain of was registered on September 15, 1995. Google had started operation in the year 1998 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two researchers at Stanford University, California. “Every day, there are billions of searches on Google in more than 150 languages around the globe, and while much has changed from the early days of Google, from its first server housed in a cabinet built out of toy blocks to its servers now being housed in more than 20 data centers globally, its mission of making the world’s information accessible to everyone remains the same,” Google wrote in a bio accompanying the Doodle. Google tests darker ‘dark mode’ for its Android app
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