Facts you probably didn’t
know about Google
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013 BY
GUARDIAN.CO.UK
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Google was 15 years old on
Thursday. Here are 15 facts you
probably didn’t know about
them.
- Google was originally called
BackRub. The homepage read:
“BackRub is a ‘web crawler’ which
is designed to traverse the web.”
- Google has acquired an average
of one company every week since
2010.
- The first Google doodle was a
Burning Man symbol. Founders
Larry Page and Sergey Brin went
to the Burning Man festival in
1998 and added the doodle to let
users know they were away from
the office that weekend.
- Google hired its first in-house
chef, Charlie Ayers, in November
1999, when the company had just
40 employees.
- Ayers went on to become the
firm’s executive chef, overseeing
a team of 150 employees across
10 cafes at its headquarters in
Mountain View, California.
- You can use Gmail in more than
50 languages. These include:
Welsh, Basque, Tagalog,
Malayalam, Telugu and Cherokee.
- Around 1,000 of Google’s
employees became millionaires
when the company went public in
2004.
- One of those millionaires was
masseuse Bonnie Brown, who
worked at the company giving
back rubs for $450 a week back
in 1999.
- The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button,
which bypasses the results page
to take users directly to the first
result of their search, has been
estimated to cost Google around
$100m in lost ad revenue every
year.
- Google hires goats. In 2009,
the company rented around 200
goats for a week to eat the grass
and fertilise the soil at its
California headquarters.
- Google’s first official tweet was
the words “I’m feeling lucky” in
binary.
- Almost all of rival company
Mozilla’s money comes from
Google. The firm pays $300m a
year to be the default search
engine on Mozilla’s web browser
Firefox.
- Google founders Larry Page and
Sergey Brin own just 16 per cent
of the company.
- That 16 per cent gives them a
combined net worth of around
$46bn.
- A new Google employee is
known as a “Noogler” and a
former employee is referred to
as a “Xoogler”.

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