Google Doodle Celebrates Its 16th Birthday

It’s 2014 and the search-engine giant Google has turned 16 today. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and currently own about 14 percent in shares. Both the founders were Ph.D. students at Stanford University at that time. Google was incorporated as a private company on September 4, 1998. The first IPO of the web-giant company was held on August 19, 2004. The search-engine company was formed with the motive of ‘to organise the world’s information and make it accessible and useful universally’.

Not many know that Google’s unofficial slogan at that time was ‘Don’t be evil !’ Google has transformed itself into more than just a search engine. It has become more of a digital newspaper. Not only it has limited itself to a search engine but also have started several services over the years. Email client (Gmail), social networking sites (Orkut, Google+), cloud storage service (Google Drive), picture editor (Picasa), and Web browser (Chrome) are some of its mainline products. The major undeniable fact about Google is: Every person who has used internet, has used Google atleast once. The story of Google is an open book. There are many things we all know about Google but there are many facts that you are not aware of.

Google is Available in over 123 languages, Google also has a different language for aliens known as Klingon. It is the same language used by aliens in Star Trek. In case if aliens attacking the world, Google has pre-planned to help them to navigate through the situation. (Funny, yeah! There are many more to come ahead.)Google might be the first company to set a goal to reduce the amount of traffic (active people on the page). To avoid any server issue, there are employees who crash the pages of many users who search unwanted stuff at that particular point of time. So next time if you’re searching ‘Where to donate my sperm’ and your page crashes, always remember there are many who are really working out there. Google owns a bunch of domain names like Gooogle.com, Gogle.com, Googlr.com and more. Just in case of misspelling, they have acquired all these domains. Try all the above domains in your browser, by default you’ll land on Google.com.