5 FACTS ABOUT GOOGLE

1. Google Was Originally Known As “Project BackRub”

Catchy, right?

When Brin and Page first developed an algorithm for searching the net, they dubbed it “BackRub”. This algorithm was then used to measure and rank the importance of webpages based on inbound links; the skeleton of what would become Google Search was formed.

Changing the name from Backrub to Google was probably a smart choice. Can you imagine what life would be like constantly saying “Let me just BackRub it” every time you needed to look up the answer to something?

2. Google Is A Multi-Billion Dollar Spelling Mistake

That’s right – Google is perhaps the biggest and most public spelling mistake ever made. Page and Brin settled on “Googol” as the name for their search engine, referring to the impossibly large number of the same name (the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros).

When it came time to register the domain name, they were delighted to find that Google.com was available. A good reason for that – until then, Google wasn’t even a real word! When they later discovered the word they’d looked up was an incorrect spelling of “googol”, they decided to roll with it anyway.

Bonus Fact: The term “googol” to describe the number 10100 was originally coined by a nine-year-old boy. At one point, his family considered suing Google for their use of the word.

3. The Founders Originally Didn’t Get Along

Despite similar visions and interests in the World Wide Web, Page and Brin certainly didn’t start off as friends. As soon as they met, the pair clashed on nearly every topic they discussed and both referred to the other as “obnoxious”.

Despite (or even because of) their passion for arguments, the two ended up becoming friends and would later join forces on a research project that would change the internet forever.

4. The First Google Computer Was Made From Lego

This one sounds like a bad urban legend, but it’s true. Due to budget constraints (don’t forget, even the founders of Google were once poor college students), the Google team fashioned custom-made server racks out of Lego bricks.

Today, Google runs more than one million servers in data centers around the world to handle over 3.5 billion searches made internationally every day. Hard to imagine it all started with a single server built from a children’s toy!

5. Google’s First Chef Was A Former Caterer For ‘The Grateful Dead’

In 1999, Google’s employees (all 40 of them) held a cook-off to determine who to hire as head chef. Charlie Ayers, former caterer for an American rock band, The Grateful Dead, won the competition and held the position for 7 years.

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