Facts About Google

• Google started as a research project at Stanford University, created by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.
• Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim was first angel investor who wrote a check of $100,000 for company called Google inc.(It was not a company at that moment, infact Google founders did not have a bank account for Google)
• Pagerank is named after Larry Page
• Craig Silverstein was first Google employ, a fellow computer science Grad student of Google founder at Stanford.
• Marissa Mayer, vice president of consumer products at Google, was first female engineer hired by Google in June 1999 and was 20th Google employee.
• In 1998 Yahoo had a chance to buy Google, but they turned it down.
• On April 1, 2000 Google announced MentalPlex. Google’s ability to read your mind as you visualize search results you want. It was an April fool.
• Google has Ten Things as the core principles that guide their Philosophy.
• One of the best changes that brought biggest leap in Google usage was the introduction of spell checker in the form of ‘Did You Mean….‘. Google discovered that placement of this function at the bottom of page worked best.
• Google’s first tweet was this.