Happy Birthday Google!
Can you believe that the search engine Google has only just turned 18? Yes, that’s right, Google is a 90’s baby! And the world’s biggest internet company is celebrating its coming of age the only way it knows how… a doodle on the homepage.
To commemorate the birthday, we’ve put together some top fact you may not have known about Google!
There is a T-Rex game hiding in Google Chrome
When Chrome doesn’t have an internet connection, it will show a message instead of the homepage, alongside the image of a dinosaur. If you press the spacebar, it will start an obstacle game which will last forever as all the obstacles are generated by code.
One Google search uses more computing power than was used to send the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon
Searching Google takes milliseconds, however the computing and networking power required to look through the internet is huge compared to relatively minor code and computing it took to put humans on the moon.
Google once went down for five minutes
On 19th August 2013, Google stopped working for five minutes and took much of the internet with it, as well as 40% of web traffic.
Google hires goats
The headquarters of Google is so large and green that it would take a lot of lawnmowers to cut. Instead, Google hires goats on a weekly basis to clear the fields. Google employees have said they are quieter, don’t pollute the air and are considerably cuter than lawnmowers.
Google doesn’t know when its actual birthday is
The company has six birthdays in total, each which denotes a significant change in the company which led to confusion as to when it’s actual birthday is. September 27th has been the official celebrated birthday since 2002.
Google has become such a popular company that it is considered the king of all search engines. Internet Marketing relies on the productivity of search engines, such as Google in order to integrate SEO into a brand and regulate traffic to a site. From all of us here at Internet Marketing Questions, we wish you a Happy Birthday Google!