Facts of Google

 Facts of Google

1.The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’.
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 is a mathematical term 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasne.
4.Number of languages in which you can have the Google home page set up, including Urdu, Latin and Klingon: 88
5.Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.