Google Discuss anything Google related.

Google Discuss anything Google related.

1. Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.

2. Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.

3. Google receives daily search requests from all over the world, including Antarctica.

4. It consisted of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.

5. The Google search engine receives about a billion search requests per day.

Very factual facts.. Hmmmm.. I wonder how much google spent on their manpower every month.. Any ideas?

[FONT=Georgia]Your post is quite informative and to the point. It is really amazing to think how Google has become a world leader in online industry. It has definitely redefined search engine industry in every possible ways.
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Yes its awesome... Thanks for the information...

Thats good to know about Googles history.. Thank your for sharing!..

History 101.. From what language is googol?