- Googol: [goo-guhl] is a number defined as the numeral 1, followed by one-hundred "zeroes."
- In internet terms, the misspelling of 'googol' by undergraduates, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, became the original and most popular search engine known to the entire world: Google, Corporate.
- The Google company has grown monumentally since 1998 (when Page and Sergey made its debut) and its mission is simple: to organize the information of the world and make it easily accessible through the internet.
- As a company, however, Google also has the mission of making money, which the public to use the information Google presents. The internet industry has also made leaps and bounds, and now more then ever, more people own personal computers in which Google becomes an application for every-day use.
- Therefore, what better way to make money, than advertising on the Google homepage itself?
INTERESTING FACTS:
• The name Google™ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ˜Googol™”.
• 57% of American kids say ‘Google’ as their first word.
• 620 million visitors visit Google.com daily.
• 97% of Google Revenue comes from their advertising services.
• The biggest break in search came when Google introduced their improved spell checker seen as “Did you mean ? ”.This feature doubled their traffic.
• There isn’t any restriction for proper dress code in the Google office. This may include pajamas and even super hero costumes.
• Google employees are allowed and even encouraged to bring in their pets to work.
• Larry Page and Sergey Brin were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively when they developed Google.
ORGANIZING DATA:
- After collecting our data concerning Google, we had to decide how to display all the information we had gathered. Our group decided on several types of graphs to use to display the data to the class but before we could present our data we tried to develop an interesting way of organizing it.
- We decided to demonstrate what Google does while remaining on topic. We created a Blog, designed to appear like Google when searched with our information organized according to person. We included history and interesting facts about Google as well as the mathematical aspect of the project.
- Every member of Group Four was given a specific job as can be seen by our separate sections of the Googol Blog.
