122 interesting facts about Google

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122 interesting facts about Google

Ronen Hillel, reputation management expert, presents interesting facts and important things about Google, the search engine and its products. Because whoever is looking for reputation management on Google – must know Ronen Hillel and his services. Here you will find interesting facts about Google and its products and services.

Google is the world leader in services and products related to the Internet. Google is a global technology company owned by the parent company Alphabet.

Google has a very wide range of Internet services and products, including advanced technologies for online advertising. The Google search engine is one of the leading and most popular products in the world. The company also has cloud computing, software and hardware and a wide range of services and products known to everyone.

Google is among the leading and most influential brands in the world. Its main revenues come from online advertising, through its advertising services system – Google Ads (formerly AdWords).
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The company was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, while they were studying at Stanford University, and became a public company in August 2004.
In the company’s official statement of intent, it is “to organize all the world’s information and make it accessible and efficient for the whole world”.

According to estimates, Google uses more than one million hosting servers worldwide, and that every day Google servers handle more than one billion search queries and more than 24 petabytes of information generated by users of Google’s many services.
The company offers a variety of internet products, including the email service “Gmail”, the video site “YouTube” and the blogging site Blogspot of the Blogger company, which was purchased by Google in 2003.

Google also offers desktop software such as: the internet browser “Google Chrome”, photo organization and editing software – “Google Photos” and instant messaging software – “Google Chat”.
Google leads the development of the operating system for cell phones “Android”, the operating system for computers “Chrome OS” and the operating system for televisions Android TV.
Google’s main website, google.com, is the most visited website on the Internet, and among the list of the 100 most visited websites in the world. It also owns other websites such as YouTube, Blogger and Orkut.

The company is one of the five Big Tech companies – the largest information technology companies in the United States.

Interesting facts about the history of Google
Google began its journey in January 1996 as a research project of the pair of American-Jewish entrepreneurs Larry Page and Sergey Brin, while they were both doctoral students at Stanford University in California.

While conventional search engines rank the results according to the number of times the search query appeared on the page, Page and Breen devised a better system for analyzing the relationships and connections between sites. They called the new system “PageRank”, where the relevance of each site was determined by the amount of pages (and their importance) linking back to that site.
Initially the two called their search engine “BackRub”, “back massage”, because the system they developed checked the number of sites linking to a particular site to determine the importance of that site. After that the name was changed to Google, a corruption of the number “Gogol” – one followed by one hundred zeros.

The name Google was chosen to show that the purpose of the search engine is to make the large amounts of information on the Internet accessible to the public. Back in its infancy, the search engine was hosted on Stanford University’s server at google.stanford.edu.

The company was founded on September 4, 1998, and the company’s offices were located in the garage of a joint company (Susan Wojcicki) in Menlo Park, California. 13 years later, in May 2011, Google’s main website was visited by more than a billion users.

The first budget that Google received was $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, in August 1998, before the company was even formed.

In early 1999, Page and Breen, still in college, decided that the search engine was taking up too much of their time. They approached a venture capital fund called “Excite” and offered to sell the search engine for a million dollars. The foundation refused.
In June 1999, the company managed to raise more than 25 million dollars, from other venture capital funds.

After five years, in August 2004, Google was issued on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The company offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share. The shares were sold in a unique online sale. The profit from the offering, $1.67 billion, made Google a company with a market value of $23 billion.
The absolute majority of the 271 million shares that were not sold to the public remained in the hands of the company, and many of its employees became millionaires on paper.

In October 2007, the stock reached a price of 700 dollars, mainly because of the company’s large profit in the internet advertising market. The jump in the share price was mainly due to purchases by private parties, and not by buying groups or institutional investors. Now the company is listed on Nasdaq as GOOG, and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange as GGQ1.

The growth of Google

In March 1999, the company moved its offices to Palo Alto, California, in Silicon Valley.
A year later, contrary to Page and Brin’s initial opposition to an ad-supported search engine, Google began selling ads linked to specific search terms.

To keep the page looking clean and not cluttered, and also to keep the site speed, only text ads were sold. The price of advertisements was determined from bids for each click on advertisements, when the starting price was 5 cents per click. This method, in which the advertiser pays only for the times their advertisement was clicked, was called “Pay Per Click”. At the beginning of 2003 the company started to be profitable.

In 2003, having already moved its offices twice, the company moved to its current location in Mountain View, California. The company complex is often referred to as the “Googleplex”.
In May 2022, the company inaugurated a new office complex in Mountain View.
Over the years, the word “Google” has become a common everyday word, so much so that Webster’s and Oxford Dictionaries have officially recognized the practice of “to google”.

Google’s acquisitions

During its years of existence, Google has bought dozens of companies.
In June 2004, Google acquired Picasa – digital photo management software, which was integrated with PicasaWeb – an online photo album service launched in June 2006.

In July 2005, Google acquired the start-up company Android (.Android inc) which was founded in 2003 and operated in Palo Alto, California, turning it into the most popular operating system for smartphones.
In October 2006, Google purchased YouTube – the leading collaborative video site on the web – for $1.65 billion.

In May 2007 it acquired the internet security company GreenBorder Technologies.
On March 14, 2006, Google purchased SketchUp from @Last Software. With this software you can create 3D buildings and even objects. Google purchased the software for Google Earth, the software was provided by the company for free on a website it set up specifically. The public was asked to design buildings and upload them to Google Earth. Thanks to this step, it is possible to find entire cities in 3D. On June 1, 2012, Google sold SketchUp to Trimble Navigation.

In February 2010, Google purchased On2 – the provider of video compression services – for 123 million lars, with the aim of improving its services and video content – and expanding them.

In March 2010, Google acquired the company DocVerse that developed software for online editing of Office files.

In March 2010, Google acquired the online photo editing service Picnic, which was integrated into the Internet photo service Picasa.

In April 2010, in its first purchase in Israel, it purchased the Israeli company Lovefixes, which develops custom drivers for operating systems, for $20 million.

In May 2010, it acquired mobile advertising company AdMob Inc for $681 million, and 3D desktop developer BumpTop.

In August 2010, Google acquired Slide – a company that develops software for social networks for 179 million dollars, and the start-up company Jambool, which develops virtual money.

Nearby it acquired Zynga – a company that offers games on social networks.
In October 2010, it acquired BlindType, which improves the convenience of typing on a touch screen for integration into the Android system.

In December 2010, it acquired the mobile payment platform ZetaWire.
In September 2010, Google acquired the Israeli company Quicky, which developed technology to make a video interactive.
In March 2011, it acquired the Irish video editing company Green Parrot, which specializes in restoring, editing and enhancing video, a technology designed for integration into YouTube. In May 2011, Google purchased the intellectual property of the Israeli Modo company for 17 million.

On August 15, 2011, Google announced the purchase of Motorola Mobility, formerly the mobile device division of the Motorola company, for $12.5 billion. The purchase gave Google, among other things, a nice collection of patents in the field of mobile devices, but it put it in competition with the other main manufacturers of Android devices.
In April 2013, Google sold the television set-top box division of Motorola Mobility to Aris Group, for about 2.35 billion dollars.

On January 30, 2014, Google announced the sale of Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion, keeping most of Motorola Mobility’s patents in Google’s hands and keeping the division of developing smartphones with interchangeable parts.

On June 6, 2013, Google announced the purchase of the Israeli company Waze for 1.1 billion dollars, but in the end the payment amounted to 966 million dollars.
On December 13, 2013, it acquired Boston Dynamics, [49] this acquisition is a milestone in Google’s entry into the field of robotics.

On January 27, 2014, it acquired DeepMind.

On February 16, 2014, it acquired SlickLogin.

In September 2017, it announced the acquisition of the division responsible for fiscal in the HTC company for an amount of 1.1 billion dollars. In January 2018, the purchase was completed.
In May 2018, Google acquired the Israeli company Velostrata.

Establishing an alphabet

On August 10, 2015, it was announced on Google’s blog about the establishment of the Alphabet company that will incorporate the Google company. It will be headed by Google founders Larry Page (who will serve as CEO) and Sergey Brin (who will be president). Sundar Pichai has become the new CEO of Google.

According to the New York Times (2006), Google has a record number of more than a million servers spread over 25 sites around the world. The company operates large centers in Ireland, Atlanta and Silicon Valley, which are connected by an optical fiber network.
The company presents its vision in the following words:
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful
In free translation: Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it accessible and useful all over the world.

The chairman of the company is Dr. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Nobel. In addition to its main offices, the company has offices in Dublin, Ireland and development centers in various locations, including Israel.

On August 19, 2004, Google issued its shares to the public for the first time at a market value of 23.1 billion dollars. The company’s shares are traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol GOOG. The market value of the company as of July 2007 was 160 billion dollars.
In October 2006, Google purchased YouTube in a stock exchange deal for $1.65 billion.

The search engine

The product that made the company famous is the Google search engine, which became the most popular search engine on the Internet shortly after its launch.[56]
The search engine is so dominant that in English the word Google is used as a verb meaning to search on the net, and in Hebrew the verb “Gigol” or “Laggal”, which is used in everyday language, is derived from the company’s name.
The search engine “Google” is based on a technology known as PageRank (a ranking method named after its inventor Larry Page), a method that determines the “importance” of a web page based on a statistical algorithm. The idea behind the algorithm is a count of the number of times the page is reached by randomly wandering the net. Such an index takes into account global considerations of the overall structure of the network and not just local considerations such as the number of references to the same page.
Google’s search engine attracts a growing audience of users, thanks to the quality of its results and its simple user interface. In 2000, Google began publishing simple text ads, based on search terms, on the side of the search results it displayed. In addition, there is an option to display a website, for a fee, in a separate list at the top of the search results.
Many times, while writing the search string, Google offers to complete it according to strings stored with it. The search engine has a user interface in many languages, including Hebrew.
The home page of the search engine includes, in addition to the general internet search, several sections:
1. News search: Google News is a Google news site, which gathers news from many news sites and arranges them according to a special algorithm. As of March 2006. The service also allows receiving e-mail updates on news dealing with the words defined by the user (for example receiving any news update dealing with the “Labor Party”). The news service from Google also supports the Hebrew version.
2. Image search: Google Images allows image searches on the web.
3. Google Maps
4. Google Drive
5. Video search: In the past, the service Google Video existed, but after the company acquired the popular video site YouTube, the use of Google Video decreased. In 2012, the company announced the cancellation of the Google Video service and YouTube became Google’s official video service. On mobile devices (phones and tablet computers) and desktop computers, within the “Chrome” browser – Google also presents the Google Now service, which is a type of “virtual assistant” which displays “info cards” and pop-up alerts about topics that “Google” believes may be of interest to the user. Google Now also includes voice activation, the ability to search by voice and the ability to “convers” with the user in an “almost natural” language.
All in all, Google makes considerable efforts to keep the user “within” its website.

Main Internet products
In addition to the search engine, Google provides other services, such as a toolbar that can be installed in the browser, machine translation services for several languages, discussion groups, a manual site guide, e-mail called Gmail, Google News.
1. YouTube: the leading collaborative video site on the net, which the company acquired in October 2006, in a stock exchange deal totaling 1.65 billion dollars.
2. Gmail: (Gmail) allows access with a browser to an e-mail box with a capacity of about 15 gigabytes, which is constantly growing. In addition, this box can be used using the POP3 and IMAP protocols, which are supported by all e-mail programs.
3. Google+ Google’s social network that competes with Facebook and interfaces with most of Google’s services. Allows, among other things, to hold multi-participant video calls, share photos, and more. Google+ was shut down on April 2, 2019, after security breaches that leaked the details of millions of users. Google, for its part, announced that Google+ is closing “due to low usage”.[61]
4. Google Chrome: a browser from Google that was written on the V8 engine developed for it. The browser is considered extremely fast.
5. Google Maps: displays the world map in several layers of information, enables search and navigation, as well as a 360-degree photo view of most of the world’s streets.
6. Google calendar: enables online calendar management.
7. Google Drive: allows you to open and manage documents, spreadsheets and presentations on the Internet for free – as a replacement for Microsoft’s Office software as well as a cloud file storage service.
8. Blogger: enables the creation of a personal blog.
9. Google Translate: enables machine translation based on statistics. The service is also intended for translating entire web pages.
10. Google Earth is a free software that simulates a globe that Google bought from the company Keyhole. The software allows you to view satellite photos of the Earth, and you can even zoom in on a specific location close to street level using satellite photos and regular aerial photos. As of July 2005, it was possible to observe details (ie – aerial photographs) only in a few selected places (France, the Vatican, the pyramids at Giza, etc.) while in other areas (Tel Aviv, Beirut, etc.) there were less detailed satellite photographs, or only high-altitude aerial photographs. Over time, the software developed a lot, so that you can watch photos with a high resolution and level of detail almost anywhere in the world. Many options have been added to the software: displaying selected places in the world in 3D, viewing photos uploaded by users, political and municipal borders and displaying layers of information on the map or satellite photo including: symbols of places to stay, restaurants, archaeological sites, and more. In addition to the basic version, which is provided for free, there are two extended versions of the software that are paid: Google Earth Plus, which has a GPS system, improved graphic performance and improved printing capabilities, and the business Google Earth Pro.
11. Picasa software for managing photos on a computer and website. The software allows you to easily create albums, edit photos, quickly search for photos and show photos to people. The software is completed by a dedicated website that allows the storage of the images and their display, both directly on the website and from Google+. This is a very easy and useful software for owners of digital cameras or for people who store a lot of pictures on their computer.
12. Google Play: is Google’s official app store (and products) for Android, included in the devices, google play competes with Apple’s App Store.
13. Google Pay enables money transfer and payment via the Internet (replaces Google Checkout), the service is similar to and competes with the old service PayPal.[62]
14. Google Cloud Platform A package of cloud services and products for businesses that allow applications, virtual machines, algorithms and corporate computing to be run on Google’s infrastructure.
15. Google Finance A financial site that includes financial news, information on public companies, graphs and stock quotes launched in March 2006.

1. Additional internet products
2. Chrome OS: an operating system based on open source intended for personal computers, mainly of the netbook and tablet type.
3. Hangouts: Formerly Google Talk. Instant messaging software that allows you to make voice calls on the Internet (VoIP). The software also allows you to receive notifications about new emails (Gmail) and reminders from Google Calendar. A browser version integrated into Gmail
4. Google groups: setting up and participating in discussion groups.
5. Google Trends: a database of the words searched for every day in the search engine. Based on this database, the research and development center in Israel created Google Insights for Search, which shows to what extent surfers searched for a certain word in the engine in relation to the timeline on that day, as well as news articles and blog sections on the same topic. You can also compare several different search words and define a time zone in which the search will be performed and a country.
6. Google Moon: allows a view of the surface of the moon with the landing point of the Apollo flights and pictures from them.
7. Google Mars: a map service that allows you to see the surface of Mars using a satellite image in infrared light, or surface elevation. Also provided is additional information gathered as a result of collaboration with NASA scientists.
8. Google Books: a multilingual service for conducting text searches in books scanned by Google, converting to text using optical character recognition and storing in its digital database. Books in the public domain are available for full view on the site and for free download.
9. Google Apps: a cluster of services for organizations. Integrates Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calender, Google Docs and more. The service allows the organization to work together effectively by sharing data. The service is provided to domain name owners.
10. Google Sites: a service that allows you to open a personal website. In the current service it is possible to integrate other Google services, such as photos and calendar.
11. Google Health: a service that currently only works in the United States and allows you to open a medical file online that can be accessed from anywhere.
12. Notebook: allows opening notebooks and saving notes in them.
13. Google Product Search: enables searching for products and buying them. The service competes with eBay.
14. Google Friend Connect: a service for website owners, which allows adding features of online social networks to the website.
15. Google Latitude: Allows people to locate their friends on the world map using the cell phone (not supported in Israel).
16. Google Toolbar is an add-on for Internet Explorer from Microsoft. Through it you can easily search the Google website, access various Google pages and more. With the add-on, you can access various Google pages, such as: news (Google News), blogging system (Blogger) and more. It is possible to block pop-up windows. Option to color letters – in case you are looking for a certain word (or several words) on any page, you can write it in the search, press the coloring button and the words will be colored so you can find them quickly. Option of automatic filling (Autofill). In the Toolbar you can write all the data about you (name, address, email, etc.), and in case you need to fill out a form, instead of filling it out, you can press one button and the form will fill itself according to the data you entered. Possibility of searching on a computer like Google Desktop Search .
17. Google Pack This is a free software package for the Windows operating system that includes most of Google’s software and third-party software such as Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice, Norton Antivirus, Adobe Reader and Google Pack. SpyDoctor comes with a component called Google Updater whose role is to help add, remove and update the software in the package. Google Pack also includes a unique screen saver Google Photos Screensaver which with the help of Google’s image search engine finds high quality landscape photos and adds them, the screen saver also allows adding photos from Picasa and RSS feeds.
18. Gboard – a virtual keyboard with over 100 million users that was first released on May 12, 2016.
19. Google Classroom – educational management system, developed by Google.
20. Google Contacts – a system that enables the management of contacts in an online and free service. The application was developed by Google, which combines the services of Google Plus, Gmail and more.
1. Google Scholar – search service in scientific articles.
2. Orkut
3. Street view
4. Panorama
5. Google Art Project
6. Google Cloud Print
7. Google music
8. Ingress – a multiplayer mobile game based on reaching physical points of interest
9. Google keep – notes app
10. VirusTotal – a website, which provides services of checking suspicious files for the presence of a computer virus or other harmfulness, in 55 different antivirus programs and 61 online scanning engines at the same time.

Operating Systems

1. Android: an open operating system based on Linux developed by Google for cell phones and tablet computers. The operating system was developed by the company Android INC. which was purchased by Google and the establishment of the Open Handset Alliance which includes 50 hardware, software and communication companies. The operating system was first introduced on November 5, 2007 with the establishment of the OHA organization led by Google. According to IDC, in 2012 the operating system held a 70% share of the entire global smartphone market.
2. Chrome OS: operating system for a computer. Google operates an open source software to develop this system called Chromium OS
3. Google TV: operating system for television.
smartphones and computers
1. Google Nexus: a series of smart phones developed by Google and manufactured by several hardware companies chosen by it.
2. Google Play Editions:
3. Chromebook:
4. Google Pixel: a series of smart phones that is a continuation series that replaces the previous Nexus series.
Products under development
1. Wimo
2. Google Glass
3. Google DeepMind
4. Android@Home is an application kit that aims to turn the Android operating system for smart phones into a kind of smart remote control.
5. Lon project
6. Tango project developing a smartphone with 3D sensors
7. Project Ara Development of a modular smartphone with interchangeable parts
8. Carbon A design language that may compete with Rust