surprising facts about Google

Google wasn't always the second most valuable brand in the world. Long before it became a well-known verb, it was an obedient digital dog that simply found and retrieved stuff, repeatedly playing for Internet users.

Eventually the little one - who got his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1995. As started. The research project - evolved into the large, $367-billion-dollar G we know and love-hate today. No longer content to bring links alone, the global tech giant now pursues meatier, more meaningful bones, such as the fastest internet speeds on the planet, rendering human drivers obsolete and, NBD, ending death.

The Mountain View, Calif., climb to the meteorite top of Mammoth is full of juicy trivia tidbits and mind-blowing milestones along the way.

Here are 19 surprising facts about Google:

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

Page, 22 At the time, after earning a recent computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan, he was pursuing his Ph.D. Considers attending Stanford University. Brin, then 21, already holds a Ph.D. In reputed institute the candidate is assigned the task of showing the page around the campus. That was back in 1995 and, as fate would have it, quite a momentous meeting of the minds.

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2. The original name of Google was BackRub.

In 1996, Page and Brin collaborated on a pioneering "web crawler" concept, curiously called BackRub. Some speculate that the initial search engine naming was a cue to retrieve backlinks. Backrub, which was linked to Brin and Page's original '90s homepage, stayed on Stanford's servers for over a year, but eventually chewed up a lot of bandwidth.

3. Google is a play on the word "googol".

On September 15, 1997, on the backrub title, Page and Brin registered the domain name of their mushrooming project as Google, a twist on "googol", a mathematical term represented by the number one followed by 100 zeros. Is. As the name indicates, the mind pair codes, understands and delivers for me the unlimited amount of data their budding search engine does. Many wondered if Google was a misspelling of googol.

Google's first office was a rented garage.

So the stereotypical Silicon Valley startup, right? Beginning in September 1998, the company's first workspace was Susan Wojcicki's garage on Santa Margarita Avenue. In Menlo Park, Calif. Wojcicki, sister of 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki, is Google employee number 16. She was the first marketing manager at Google and is now the CEO of YouTube. As far as the house that built Google, the tech titan bought it, because of course it bought it. Then it filled the suburban ranch-style dwelling with candy, snacks, and lava lamps.

6. A former caterer for The Grateful Dead was Google's first chef.

In 1999, Chef Charlie Ayers won a cook-off judged by Google employees, then only 40 overall, to hold the position, which he held for seven years. Ayers initially cooked food for the Grateful Dead in exchange for free admission to their legendary shows, but later took over catering for jam bands. At Google, they eventually served 4,000 daily lunches and dinners at 10 cafes in their Mountain View, Calif., global headquarters.

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

In 2000, Google unofficially opened its New York branch at a Starbucks in New York City. It was operated by a one-person sales "team". Now, thousands of "NYooglers" clock in at his luxurious, 2.9 million-square-foot New York office, a former Port Authority building at 111 8th Ave.

8. Swedish Chef is a language priority in Google Search.

Gurandi Morn-de Bern-dee, who knew? Yes it's true. In 2001, Google approached its inner yodeling Muppet and opened the door to search queries and results in Swedish chef lingo (called bork bork bork, to be technical). Other "joke" languages you can find include Google's algorithms: Elmer Fudd, Pirate, Klingon, Pig Latin and, of course, Hacker (aka 1337sp34k).

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