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Fun Fact 1.
Google does not follow specification which states that data of website to be loaded in form of packets each packet consist of 1 kb . It sends out all the packets required for the entire homepage to load at once to reach your computer. The RFC specification of starting with a window size of 1 and then growing exponentially is to prevent congestion in the network and at the receiver, but Google does not follow it.
Also nobody questions Google about it.
Fun Fact 2.
Google owns a large number of domain names that are generally misspellings/typos of google.com For example gooogle.com, gogle.com, googil.com, googlr.com, gogole.com, goolge.com and more. All of these seamlessly redirect to Google's homepage.
466453.com works too.
Fun Fact 3.
Death benefits for Google employees in U.S.
In case a U.S. Googler pass away while he is curretly working for company , their surviving spouse or domestic partner will receive a check for 50% of their salary every year for the next decade.
Here's What Happens To Google Employees When They Die
Fun Fact 4.
Google is a super dog-friendly company. It proudly names "company dogs," like Yoshka (described as a "free-range Leonberger"). Yoshka accompanies Urs Holzle, senior VP operations and Google Fellow to the Googleplex. Less senior staff are also allowed to bring their dogs to the office.
Fun Fact 5.
An awesome easy to use calculator... which understands words and exactly provide correct results in digits.
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| Google working like Wingardium Leviosa |
Fun Fact 6.
You can ask Google to calculate the tip on dinner.
Fun Fact 7
Trying to be healthy? Get help deciding what to eat.
Fun Fact 8.
Do you know why Google uses the word "Google" in its homepage as image instead of text or css styling?.. Because, at any given time that image is stored in more than 85% browsers around the world in the form of Cache... that is also a reason for the quick page load..
Fun Fact 9
Wedding planner - Simplify Wedding Planning with Google for Weddings lets you plan your wedding from the start to the end in a simplified manner..
Fun Fact 10.
In 1999, Google wanted to sell itself to Excite for $1 million. Excite CEO George Bell rejected Page and Brin’s $1 million price. Vinod Khosla, one of Excite's venture capitalists tried to negotiate the offer with Brin and Page to $750,000, which was unsuccessful and Google became a $180 billion company by 2010. Vinod Khosla was thrown out of Bell's office later.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/29/google-excite/
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