Some of the interesting facts in Google - Freelance Forum

dinuka_lk · 08-31-2009, 04:25 AM

I was amazed reading this. I got reference from their site and thought of sharing with you. I made Larry and Brin as my idols after knowing their tactics and concepts by this.
1. Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.

2. Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.

3. Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.

4. It consisted of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.

5. The Google search engine receives about a billion search requests per day

Jenie0109 · 09-08-2009, 12:21 AM

well that's pretty interesting facts... but is it your article or you just copied and post it here?

prodev · 09-13-2009, 10:15 PM

It is really amazing too see how Google has emerged as the leading search engine though it had a humble beginning. It has started just as an innovation and a way to improve coordination among a number of computer but soon it realised its potential and heralded a new era.

Jenie0109 · 09-14-2009, 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by prodev

It is really amazing too see how Google has emerged as the leading search engine though it had a humble beginning. It has started just as an innovation and a way to improve coordination among a number of computer but soon it realised its potential and heralded a new era.

the new era of information technology