14 Amazing Google Facts On Google’s 14th Birthday

1. Google’s original name was ‘BackRub’.
2. The BackRub search engine is still accessible – but isn’t working. “Many services are unavailable due to a local network faliure beyond our control. We are working to fix the problem and hope to be back up soon,” says a message posted on the page in 1997.
3. Backrub was hosted on ten 4GB hard drives in a storage case made of Lego.
4. 15% of Google’s daily searches have never been typed in before.
5. ‘Google’ is a play on the word “googol”, a term meaning a number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
6. Google’s first company dog was called Yoshka.
7. In 2000, Google announced MentalPlex, a way to read your mind for search results. It was a joke.
8. Google handles 100 billion searches per month.
9. …and has 100 million active users of Google Plus.
10. Klingon has been an official language of Google since 2002.
11. The first Google Doodle was posted in 1998, to let people know that founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were at the Burning Man festival.
12. ‘Google’ became a verb in the Oxford English Dictionary in June 2006.
13. Google estimates more than one million spam pages are created each hour.
14. Google.com was registered in 1997 – a year before the site launched.

Happy Birthday #GOOGLE