INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT GOOGLE

GOOGLE Inc is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation.

Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products,and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program.

The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University as Ph.D. candidates.

It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998.

The company's stated mission from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".

Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world, and processes over one billion search requests and twenty petabytes of user-generated data every day.

Ninety-nine percent of Google's revenue is derived from its advertising programs.

Google's original homepage had a simple design since its founders were not experienced in HTML, the language for designing web pages.

History:

Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California.While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships between websites. They called this new technology PageRank, where a website's relevance was determined by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages, that linked back to the original site.

The name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol", the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was meant to signify the amount of information the search engine was to handle.

The first funding for Google was on August 1998 contribution of US$100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

Brin and Page decided that the search engine they had developed was taking up too much of their time from academic pursuits. They went to Excite CEO George Bell and offered to sell it to him for $1 million.But he rejected the offer.