- September 8, 2024
Amazing facts of Google- Everybody’s digital Companion
Hi Children,
It will be a surprise to complete a day without using the Google and its products. Almost every internet user in the world uses at least one product of Google in a day. Knowing the facts about the Google’s evolution is always interesting and exciting. Is the company gigantic since beginning? Absolutely No. No company was big in the beginning, but the vision of the two brilliant computer architects was great. Let us delve into the amazing brief and exciting facts of GOOGLE.
Google is an American multinational corporation (MNC) and IT company focusing on search engine technology, computer software, cloud computing, online advertising, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF NAME
Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin ( See the picture for those brilliant duo from Left to Right) Page and Brin originally nicknamed the new search engine “BackRub“, later they changed the name to Google. The name of the search engine (Google) was a misspelling of the word googol. GOOGOL– A very large number written 10100 (1 followed by 100 zeros), picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information.
PageRank (PR) is an algorithm used by Google Search to rank web pages in their search engine results. It is named after both the term “web page” and co-founder Larry Page.
On August 10, 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate named Alphabet Inc. Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., is one of the five Big Tech companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft and the market cap of Alphabet as of September 06, 2024 is $1857.83B.
PRODUCTS
Everybody knows the Google Search but the company has lot more products and services beyond Google Search, many of which hold dominant market positions. These products address a wide range of applications, uses, services including
- email (Gmail),
- navigation (Waze & Maps),
- cloud computing (Cloud),
- web navigation (Chrome),
- video sharing (YouTube),
- productivity (Workspace),
- operating systems (Android),
- cloud storage (Drive),
- language translation (Translate),
- photo storage (Photos),
- videotelephony (Meet),
- smart home (Nest),
- smartphones (Pixel),
- wearable technology (Pixel Watch & Fitbit),
- music streaming (YouTube Music),
- AI (Google Assistant & Gemini),
- machine learning APIs (TensorFlow),
- AI chips (TPU), and more.
- Hardware (chrome book, Nest)
HEAD QUARTERS AND OTHER OFFICE LOCATIONS
“The Googleplex”,- Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. “Googleplex”, a play on words on the number and the headquarters itself being a complex of buildings. Internationally, Google has over 80 offices in more than 50 countries including three offices in India viz. Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
PRESENT CEO
Pichai Sundararajan better known as Sundar Pichai is an Indian-born American Engineer and business executive is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. He was the alumni of IIT, Kharagpur (B.Tech) of India and Stanford Univeristy (M.S) & Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania(MBA).
EMPLOYEES
Google has over 182,000 employees all over the World. Employees at Google are called Googlers, and new employees at Google are affectionately called as Nooglers.
DOODLE
A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepages intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and historical figures. You can find the most beautiful Doodles designed by Google for various occasions in the following link.
The colorful logos depicting India’s National Symbols are doodles prepared by Google for Indian Independence day celebrations. How beautifully ♥ described India by Google…Hats off to Google.
I hope you will find more interesting facts of Google and other companies by asking Google’s product “Google Search”. But your mind shall be prepared with How, What, Why like questions before opening a Google Search.
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