The company, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, traditionally marks its birthday on the Google homepage on September 27.
However, not even Google seems to really know when it was formed. Since 2006, it has celebrated its birthday on September 27, but the year before that, had it as September 26.
Facts That U Should Not Know About GOOGLE
1.Nobody knows when its birthday is
The question of today’s Doodle – when is Google’s birthday? – isn’t actually answerable. The company has six birthdays, at least, and has just decided to start celebrating it on 27 September.
2.And it might even be 19 years old
One of its potential birthdays was in 1995, meaning that it wouldn’t even be 18 at all.
3.There’s a T-Rex on the Google Campus, and it has a slightly terrifying message
But Google is already feeling death breathing down its neck – or is worried that it might. The company’s campus has a huge model of a T-Rex skeleton, which is meant to remind employees not to let the company go extinct.
4.Google wasn’t very happy with becoming a generic word for searching
The company worried that the word – as in the phrase, “just Google it” – would undermine all of the work it had done to make its brand recognizable.
5.Google buys more other companies than you can imagine
Some estimates put Google’s buying habits at more than one company per week. Most of them are small – but some of them can be huge.
Many of the products simply get folded into others. But others, like Android, continue to exist on their own within Google’s fold – and, in that case, go on to be one of its most recognised products.
It very rarely sells them on again, though.
6.Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” button costs tens of millions of dollars per year
This button might seem like just a bit of fun, and that’s mostly what it is. But it’s expensive fun, for Google.
By just taking the user straight through to the first result, Google also skips past all the advertising that it would usually show to people when they get up to the results page. That means that it misses out on the advertising revenue, too.
But the company has been gradually getting around this, with a set of features that mean you probably wouldn’t even notice it.
Google Instant means that so long as you have it turned on and your connection is fast enough, for instance, you’ll start seeing results as soon as you start typing.
And Google is able to collect enough information about you as you browse around the internet that it can be fairly sure you’ll come into contact with one of its ads, even if not immediately.
7.The first ever Google storage was made of Lego
Nowadays, Google is one of the world’s biggest data storage companies – filling warehouse upon warehouse with servers to store people’s work, photos, emails and everything else. But at its very beginning, when it was known just as Backrub, its first storage was just a load of hard drives housed in a container built of Lego.
8.Google gives very generous payouts to the husbands and wives of people who die while working for them
They’ll receive 50 per cent of their salary for the next decade. And their children receive a payout until they’re grown up, too.
9.One Google search uses more computing power than it took to send the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon
Searching Google is easy and takes just miliseconds. But the computing and networking power required to look through almost all of the known internet is huge – far more huge than the relatively minor amount of code and computing that it took to put humans on the moon.
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