In February 2009, Google announced its arrival on microblogging site Twitter with a binary Tweet. Google, which controls nearly 88.6 per cent of the world’s search engine market, is among the many websites blocked by the Chinese government. Thus, Google brought image searching to their platform. It was the most popular query back then, but Google did not have the exact way to deliver what users wanted. The green dress Lopez wore caught the world’s attention and the Google search engine was flooded with queries about the photo. The idea for this new venture was inspired by a red carpet photo taken at the 2000 Grammy Awards of pop star Jennifer Lopez. The company owns multiple domain names containing misspelled versions of its name, such as, , and .ĭespite Google’s founding in 1998, Google Images were not introduced into the world until July 2001. Backrub analyzed the web’s backlinks to understand a website’s importance and what other websites it was related to, so the duo chose Backrub as the name for the engine. The founder rented the garage of their friend Susan Wojcicki, who now is the CEO of YouTube.įounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin planned to name their company ‘Backrub’ after a university project they began in 1996. While the internet giant now has offices in every major country, it once operated from a garage in Menlo Park, California. Like all extraordinary stories, Google’s journey began with humble beginnings. The founders chose the name because they wanted to organize ‘an infinite amount of information on the web’. Google is derived from the mathematics term googol, which is the symbol 1 followed by 100 zeros. Despite this, there are a number of fascinating facts about this internet giant that are little known.

If you do a simple keyword search, you can find out (almost) everything Google knows. It’s impossible for us to imagine life without Google’s innovations. A majority of people would have never imagined that Google would change the world on September 27, 1998, but that’s what happened.

A university research project for two Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, changed the way the world uses the internet. Today is the 23rd birthday of Google, the internet giant.

Google's 23rd birthday