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Google Facts
  1. The name "Google" is a play on the word "googol," which refers to the number represented by 1 followed by one hundred zeros.
  2. Google announced its Chinese name 谷歌 (pinyin: gǔ gē), which literally means "Song of the Crop"
  3. As a further play on Google's name, its headquarters, located in California, are referred to as "the Googleplex" — a googolplex being 1 followed by a googol of zeros, and the HQ being a complex of buildings
  4. Google’s ranking system was originally nicknamed, "BackRub," because the system checked backlinks to estimate a site's importance.
  5. Originally the search engine used the Stanford University website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated as Google Inc. on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California.
  6. After quickly outgrowing two other sites, the company settled into their current home in a complex of buildings in Mountain View at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, in 2003. Silicon Graphics leased these buildings to Google.
  7. U.S. Patent 6,285,999 describing Google's ranking mechanism (PageRank) was granted on September 4, 2001. The patent was officially assigned to Stanford University and lists Lawrence Page as the inventor.
  8. On September 28, 2005, Google announced a long-term research partnership with NASA which would involve Google building a 1-million square foot R&D center at NASA's Ames Research Center.
  9. Time Warner's AOL unit and Google unveiled an expanded partnership on December 21, 2005, including an enhanced global advertising partnership and a $1 Billion investment by Google for a 5% stake in AOL.
  10. Additionally, Google has also recently formed a partnership with Sun Microsystems to help share and distribute each other's technologies. As part of the partnership Google will hire employees to help in the open source office program OpenOffice.org.
  11. In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa from Idealab and began offering Picasa for free download.
  12. On January 17, 2006, Google announced that it had purchased the radio advertising company dMarc, which provides an automated system that allows companies to advertise on the radio.
  13. On October 19, 2005, the United Kingdom version of Gmail was converted to Google Mail, because "Gmail" is trademarked by another company in the UK.
  14. The Google logo was designed by Ruth Kedar, and is set in the Catull typeface.
  15. Google Search is available in invented languages such as Klingon. Links to Google in the following mock languages appear on the Language Tools page.

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