Google Quiz

Prepared By Manu Melwin Joy

Assistant ProfessorIlahia School of Management Studies

Kerala, India.Phone – 9744551114

Mail – manu_melwinjoy@yahoo.com

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When was google founded

• Between 1997 and 2005

• September 4, 1998

What is the meaning of google

• zero

• 1 followed by 100 zeros.

Google was founded by

• Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Google founders were Phd students at

• ______ford University.

• Stanford University.

Unofficial slogan of google

• "Don't ________."

• "Don't be evil."

Headquarters

• _______________________________, U.S

• Googleplex, Mountain View, California, U.S

Google Facts

Initially the founders of Google did not have an idea regarding using HTML and just wanted a quick interface. This is the main reason that makes the Google home page appear so bare .

• Initially the Google Search Engine was called Back Rub, when it was in testing Mode. After that it was renamed as Googol that meant one followed by hundred zeroes. But Google's founders got the word Google accidentally, as a spelling mistake

• Google's toughest competitors are Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Mozilla.

• They use the 20% / 5% rules. If at least 20% of people use a feature, then it will be included. At least 5% of people need to use a particular search preference before it will make it into the ‘Advanced Preferences’.

• Gmail was used internally for nearly 2years prior to launch to the public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.

• "Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one." So began the "letter from the founders" penned by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the company's securities registration form in 2004. Despite ever-increasing commercial success since that date, Brin and Page have kept to their word.

• You'd be surprised to know that the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, which appears quite alluring to press and takes users directly to the first result of their search, is nearly never used. However, it was found in surveys that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. It has been estimated to cost Google around $100 million in lost advertising revenue every year.

• Google believes that employees should not go out of 150 meters from the office for food so it provides various different varieties of cuisines to the employees inside the office.

• Employees are encouraged to use 20 per cent of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.