1 – Google was originally called BackRub
Yes, you read correctly…
The search engine that revolutionized the web was originally called BackRub.
This name was a nod to the backlink research system that formed the core of its technology.
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2 – The name Google comes from mathematics
The name Google is inspired by the mathematical Haiti Email List term “googol” which designates the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
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3 – Google was not the first search engine
Google was not the first search engine to be invented. At the time of its launch, other players like Yahoo or Altavista were already well present on the market.
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History of search engines from 1990 to 2014
4 – Google Street View counts more than 220 billion images
More images indexed than the number of stars in the Milky Way! Google street view currently covers more than 16 million kilometers of roads, paths and trails of all kinds.
Google Street View vehicles have already traveled around the Earth more than 400 times
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Thanks to Live View (the new feature of the tool), here we are in the future!
An augmented reality navigation system which allows you to see the direction to take through the screen of your smartphone using virtual arrows.
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5 – Google receives more than 8.5 billion searches per day
That’s over 99,000 requests per second !
To understand these dizzying figures:
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The most searched keywords in 2023 in France are:
“Covid”, “Olympics”, “Bitcoin”, “Weather”, “Netflix”, “Presidential elections”, “Instagram”, “Recipe”, “TikTok” and “Amazon”
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6 – Yahoo and Google: divergent visions
After the failure of 1998, Yahoo offered to buy Google in 2002 for 3 billion dollars, but the founders of Google refused the offer.
This decision will prove to be a major turning point in the history of both companies.
Today, Google is valued at more than $2,000 billion compared to Yahoo's $10 billion. This difference in valuation is due to a series of factors, including the divergent vision of the two companies.
In 2006, Google paid $1.65 billion and won the battle to acquire YouTube , the booming video hosting service. This acquisition is a blow for Yahoo, which had also made an offer.