Google...The 8th Wonder Of The World

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Mar 25, 2011 400th Birthday of Evliya Çelebi -

(Turkey)

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

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Mar 24, 2011 137th Birthday of Harry Houdini -

(Global)

Google's name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1

followed by one hundred zeroes. 

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Mar 21, 2011 Persian New Year - (Selected

Countries)

Gmail was used internally for nearly 2years prior to launch to the public

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Mar 20, 2011 Holi Festival - (India)

Google has the largest network of translators in the world

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Mar 17, 2011 Sayed Darwish's Birthday - (Egypt)

Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their

own projects.

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Mar 17, 2011 150th Anniversary of the Italian Unification -

(Italy) Google's index of web pages is the largest

in the world, comprising billions of web pages. Google searches this immense

collection of web pages often in less than half a second.

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Mar 17, 2011 St. Patrick's Day - (Selected Countries)

Google receives daily search requests from all over the world,

including Antarctica.

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Mar 15, 2011 Hungarian National Day - (Hungary)

Users can restrict their searches for content in 35 non-English languages, including Chinese,

Greek, Icelandic, Hebrew, Hungarian and Estonian.

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Mar 14, 2011 Alam Ara's 80th Anniversary - (India)

Google has a world-class staff of more than 2,668 employees known as Googlers. The company headquarters

is called the Googleplex.

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Mar 13, 2011 National Thai Elephant Day - (Thailand)

The size of googleplex / google headquarters is 129619 square

meters, or 32.03 acres

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Mar 12, 2011 Chinese Arbor Day - (China)

Google Headquarters have their own Restaurant with Organic Meals that are

served to all employees FREE.

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Mar 09, 2011 Doodle 4 Google: Ireland Winner - (Ireland)

Google invented a special scanner to digitize 15 million library books and have them

published on their engine

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Mar 08, 2011 Women's Day - (Selected Countries)

They have 200,000 computers at their headquarters to cater for the massive amount of bandwidth needed to generate and support

the millions of users online.

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Mar 08, 2011 Carnival - (Brazil)

Just so you know: “˜to google’ became a verb in 2006 when both Merriam Webster Collegiate

Dictionary as well as the Oxford English Dictionary recognized it. It of course means – to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.

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Mar 07, 2011 Sendung mit der Maus 40th Anniversary -

(Germany)

How much energy does a single Google Search take up? Google says it’s about 1KJ

(Kilo Joules). In green terms, it’s approximately equal to .2g of CO2 emitted

per search.

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Mar 06, 2011 Will Eisner's 94th Birthday - (US, Selected Countries)

Google has 450,000 servers collected data centers scattered around the world

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Mar 06, 2011 Ghana's Independence Day - (Ghana)

When Google started it indexed 25,000 web pages. Today Google indexes billions of web

pages and each time it grows by 10-25%.

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Mar 03, 2011 Girl's Day - (Japan)

57% of American kids say ‘Google’ as their first word.

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Feb 28, 2011 Li Bai's Birthday - (China, Hong Kong,

Taiwan)

97% of Google Revenue comes from their advertising services.

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Feb 27, 2011 148th Birthday of Joaquin Sorolla –

(Spain, Selected Countries)

As of December 2009, Google’s assets were valued at $40.5 billion.

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Feb 26, 2011 100th Birthday of Taro Okamoto - (Japan)

There isn’t any restriction for proper dress code in the Google office. This may

include pajamas and even super hero costumes.

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Feb 25, 2011 Kuwait National Day - (Kuwait)

It would take 5,707 years to do a manual search of Google's 3 billion Web pages, at one minute a page 

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Lantern Festival - (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan)

It usually takes Google 0.5 second to search its database.

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Jan 10, 2011 Coming of Age Day - (Japan)

In 2007 Google announced it will award $20 million to the 1st private team which builds a robot — and

puts it on the moon.

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Feb 11, 2011 Thomas Edison's Birthday - (Global)

The 3 largest traffic drivers for Gmail are Google, Facebook — and Yahoo! Mail…

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Feb 03, 2011 Lunar New Year's - (China, Hong Kong, Korea,

Taiwan)

Google started off its first operations in a rented Garage.

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Jan 14, 2011 Festival of Kites - (India)

Google’s first ever April Fool’s joke went online on April 1st, 2000 and was called

“MentalPlex” – Google’s ability to read your mind.

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Feb 02, 2011 Vitinho's 25th Anniversary - (Portugal)

In 1999, when Google moved to their Paolo Alto office, there were only 19 employees in

the company. Today there are over 2,700 Googlers.

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Jan 21, 2011 Grandparents' Days - (Poland)

It will take Google 300 years to put the entire world’s information online

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Jan 25, 2011 Tom Jobim's Birthday - (Brazil)

Google's main server is cast from purest gold, has a platinum keyboard

and a display made from 20 kg of diamonds.

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