Google, today’s one of the biggest brands in the world and its estimated net value is around $367 billion. Google was founded in 1997 by two Stanford students: Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It started as a search engine, today it’s much more than just being a search engine as you can navigate, mail, watch videos, upload your videos, read the news, translate other languages, and do many more things with Google. Here are a few interesting facts about Google that will amaze you:

Original Name of Google was Backrub 

Yes, you have heard it right. Before Google, its name was Backrub and it was changed after a year. 

Can you imagine saying, ‘let's Backrub it’? Sounds funny I guess but Backrub was the original name its founder gave it when it was launched but it was changed to Google only within a year and thanks to God for that. You must know that Google is actually a misspelling of the world Googel which mathematically means a one with zero hundred.

Started in a Rented Garage

It may sound very cliché and typical, but yes when it was started, its first office was a rented garage. 

Just like most success stories, the journey of Google was also started humbly. Today Google has high-profile offices in various countries but when it started, the first office of Google was a rented garage on Santa Margarita Ave. in Menlo Park, Calif which the founders rented from their friend Susan Wojcicki, who is now the CEO of YouTube.

The Google search technology is called PageRank.

The technology that is used in Google search is known as PageRank and no one except a very few people even from Google knows how it works.

PageRank is the system that is used while you search for something on Google. It gives value to every website and how important they are. The name PageRank actually has nothing to do with the English word page as it’s taken from one of its founders Larry Page. Doing good SEO determines at which position a website page should be and every company uses SEO to rank up their website but nobody outside Google knows how exactly PageRank works and it’s a trade secret.

Google is the Most Used Search Engine 

Google is the most used and famous search engine with a 91.94% market share.

Google is not the only search engine available online but it’s the most used and dominant search engine. The market share of Google is 91.94% by 2021. It has got an index of more than 3 billion websites and Google takes just 3 seconds to search through these websites.