10 Crazy Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Google

1. Sergey Brin and Larry (Lawrence) Page met by some coincidence.

Page, 22 at that point, having as of late procured a PC science certificate from the University of Michigan, thinks about going to Stanford University for his Ph.D. Brin, then, at that point, 21, currently a Ph.D. competitor at the esteemed establishment, is relegated to show Page around grounds. That was back in 1995 and, as destiny would have it, a remarkable pivotal agreement.

2. Google was initially named BackRub.

In 1996, Page and Brin worked together on a spearheading "web crawler" idea inquisitively called BackRub. Some estimate that the early internet searcher's classification was a gesture to recovering backlinks. BackRub, which connected to Brin's and Page's '90s-tastic unique landing pages, lived on Stanford's servers for over a year, yet ultimately bit up an excess of transmission capacity.

3. Google is a play on "googol."

On Sept. 15, 1997, over the BackRub title, Page and Brin enrolled the area name of their mushrooming project as Google, a wind on "googol," a numerical term addressed by the numeral one followed by 100 zeros. The name alluded to the apparently limitless measure of information the intelligent pair code their juvenile web index to mine, figure out and convey. Many contemplated whether Google is an incorrect spelling of Googol.

4. Google's most memorable doodle was a Burning Man stick figure.

The debut doodle was an out-of-the-workplace message that Page and Brin made in August of 1998 to tell individuals they'd delivered off to the Burning Man celebration. The future tycoons situated the famous Man behind the second "o" in Google's logo. Fella, look at it here.

5. Google's most memorable office was a leased carport.

So cliché Silicon Valley startup, correct? Beginning in September 1998, the organization's most memorable work area was Susan Wojcicki's carport on Santa Margarita Ave. in Menlo Park, Calif. Wojcicki, sister of 23andMe pioneer Anne Wojcicki, is Google worker number 16. She was Google's most memorable showcasing administrator and is presently the CEO of YouTube. With respect to the house that fabricated Google, the tech titan got it, in view obviously it did. Then it filled the rural farm style abiding with sweets, bites and astro lights.

6. A previous caterer for The Grateful Dead was Google's most memorable gourmet specialist.

In 1999, gourmet specialist Charlie Ayers won a cook-off decided by Google's representatives, then, at that point, just 40 on the whole, to secure the position, which he held for quite some time. Ayers at first cooked for the Grateful Dead in return with the expectation of complimentary admission to their incredible shows, yet later took over providing food for the jam band. At Google, he ultimately served 4,000 everyday snacks and meals in 10 bistros all through its Mountain View, Calif., worldwide base camp.

7. Google New York started at a Starbucks on 86th Street.

In 2000, Google informally started off its New York arm at a Starbucks in New York City. It was helmed by a one-individual deals "group." Now, a huge number of "NYooglers" get started at its stylish, 2.9 million-square-foot New York office, a previous Port Authority expanding on 111 eighth Ave.

8. Swedish Chef is a language inclination in Google search.

Gurndy morn-dee consume dee, who knew? Indeed, it's valid. In 2001, Google reached out to its inward warbling Muppet and cleared a path for search inquiries and results in Swedish Chef language (called Bork Bork, to be specialized). Other "joke" dialects you can stimulate Google's calculation with include: Elmer Fudd, Pirate, Klingon, Pig Latin and, obviously, Hacker (a.k.a. 1337sp34k).

9. Gmail was sent off on April Fool's Day, no joke.

Playing with Silicon Valley's longstanding custom of pulling April Fool's Day tricks, Google revealed Gmail on April 1, 2004, in a wackily-phrased declaration that was broadly confused as a deception. It wasn't Google Gulp. It was a splendid twofold phony and the antecedent to a Google staple that presently serves a huge number of clients across the world consistently.

10. Googlers ride bright "gBikes" around the Googleplex.

Sent off in 2007, Google's Googleplex grounds worker bicycle program started as an unassuming armada of radiant blue Huffys. Then came the silly "comedian bicycles." Now Googlers ride in excess of 1,000 essential hued, bushel prepared ocean side cruisers, named "gBikes," around the two-mile field that is Google Mountain View. Curiously, none of the bicycles have locks. Representatives essentially "acquire" the closest arrangement of wheels. Whenever they're done, they drop them off advantageously near office entrances for other Googlers to utilize.