Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Corporate : 10 things you didn't know about Google

  1.  The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’
  2. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.
  3. The infamous “I feel lucky” is nearly never used.
  4. Google encourages its employees to spend at least 20% of their time developing an independent idea.
  5. Google's unofficial slogan is "Don't Be Evil".
  6. 97% of Google's revenue comes from advertisements. 
  7. Google Earth reached 1 billion downloads in 2011.
  8. Google pays Mozilla Firefox millions of dollar every year.
  9. In April 2004, Google announced to open a research facility on the moon, called Googlunaplex.
  10. Google has the largest network of translators in the world.

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