Feb 12
Google Fun Facts
Posted by admin in Google Facts, Google Fun Stuff on 02 12th, 2009| icon3Comments Off

300_336039Google sorts billions of bits of information for its users. Here are some little-known bits of information about Google:

* Google’s name is a play on the word googol, which refers to the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, “Mathematics and the Imagination” by Kasner and James Newman. Google’s play on the term reflects the company’s mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.

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Feb 10
Google fun facts
Posted by admin in Google Facts on 02 10th, 2009| icon3Comments Off

How long it would take to do a manual search of Google’s 3 billion Web pages, at one minute a page?

5,707 years

How long it usually takes Google to search its database?

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