10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google

“Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” So began the “letter from the founders” penned by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the company’s securities registration form in 2004. Despite ever-increasing commercial success since that date, Brin and Page have kept to their word.

Google is an unconventional company with a huge stake in our online lives. It is a source of fascination for many, including us, but what really happens in the Googleplex? And what cool factoids and stats exist from the company’s relatively short past?

Here we bring you 10 fun facts about Google to quench our own thirst for Google knowledge as well as hopefully offer you a distracting diversion from your daily life.

1. The First Google Doodle
Google’s famous homepage “Doodles” (the changing Google logo graphics) are well known and enjoyed by millions around the world as a way to mark an event or anniversary. But did you know that the very first Google Doodle was designed as a kind of “out of office” message?

In 1998 Brin and Page took the weekend off to go the Burning Man festival in Nevada. The Burning Man doodle (shown above), was designed by the Google guys and added to the homepage to let their users know they were out of office and couldn’t fix technical issues like a server crash.

2. Interesting Figures from the Google IPO
While the initial price for Google’s stock at its Initial Public Offering in August 2004 is an interesting stat in itself, there’s more to the story. The opening price for Google’s stock was $85 per share. At the time of writing, the stock price was $483 but has soared as high as $600 in the past year, making GOOG a rather nice investment for many.

A bonus factoid from Google’s IPO process is the value Google stated it hoped to raise on its S-1 form — as much as $2,718,281,828. It may just look like a..

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Rally driver Jeremy Foley has spoken to Eurosport about the incredible crash last year which he somehow survived.
Foley and his navigator Yuri Kouznetsov were taking part in the legendary Pike's Peak International Hill Climb in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, the second oldest motor race in America.
But Foley misjudged one of the turns on top of a cliff in his Mitsubishi Evo, and the car flew off the road and down the side of the boulder-strewn, 14,000ft mountain.
The 500-horsepower car rolled over 20 times as it flew down the mountainside, leaving spectators fearing that they had just witnessed a fatal accident.
Incredibly, however, the car's steel roll cage held firm - and both men walked away. They were both airlifted to hospital for checks, but later released.

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Akiongea na BK Cop leo Matumaini amesema kuwa anaendelea kutumia dozi ingawa hali ya afya yake bado si shwari kutokana na kugulia maumivu makali ya miguu hali inayomfanya ashindwe kutembea.
Msanii huyo ameeleza kuwa kwa siku moja huwa anameza vidonge zaidi ya 39 lakini hapati lishe nzuri kwababu ya kutokuwa na pesa na kujinunulia chakula.
Aidha amedai kuwa wakati alipokuwa msumbiji alipata misaada ya kifedha kutoka kwa wasanii mbalimbali lakini hasaidiwi tena tangu alipofika Tanzania.
‘Niliomba msaada kwenye magazeti ambapo niliacha namba zangu za tigo pesa lakini meseji nyingi nazopokea ni za pole; hata hivyo kuna watu wanadai wametuma kwa namba ya Michael Sangu (Mkt Chama cha waigizaji) ambayo alitoa gazetini lakini mimi sikuwahi kuonana tena na Michael tangu aliponililipia matibabu wakati natoka hospitali’. Alisema Matumaini
Mnamo Februari 9 mwaka huu Matumaini aliruhusiwa kutoka hospitali ya Amana jijini Dar es salaam alipokuwa amelazwa kwa siku tatu tatizo kubwa likiwa ni miguu na alitakiwa kurudi tena hospitali baada ya kumaliza dozi aliyoandikiwa na daktari.

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Mkuu wa Sekondari hiyo, Jasinta Assey alikiri na kusema kwamba vitendo vya uvutaji bangi na biashara ya ukahaba kwa wanafunzi wake, vinachangiwa na askari wa Kituo kidogo cha Stakishari ambao alidai wanachukua rushwa kwa wauzaji wa bangi na nyumba bubu za wageni.
Dar es Salaam. Baadhi ya wanafunzi wa Shule ya Sekondari ya Kata ya Majani ya Chai iliyopo Kipawa jijini Dar es Salaam, wametajwa kujiingiza katika kashfa ya ngono, kuvuta na kuuza bangi katika moja ya nyumba zinazozunguka shule hiyo.
Hilo ni tukio lingine jipya, kwani mwishoni mwa mwaka jana, kuliibuka matukio ya ajabu kwa wanafunzi wa Shule ya Msingi, Ruaruke, Rufiji mkoani Pwani ambao walielezwa kujihusisha na uvutaji bangi hata kukonyeza na kubaka walimu wao.
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I've Archieved My Dream: Malala - Taliban Shooting Victim

From Pakistan to Birmingham: Malala Yousafzai, 15, was gunned down by the Taliban in revenge for her campaigning on girls' education, but began her studies at Edgbaston High School for Girls
The Pakistani teenager nursed back to health in Britain after being gunned down by the Taliban returned to school

 Malala Yousafzai, 15, was shot in the head by extremists opposed to her campaign for girls' education.
She was attacked by gunmen who boarded her school bus in Pakistan last October.
Close to death, she was flown to Britain for treatment, and surgeons at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham saved her life.


Fresh start: Malala walked to school in Birmingham accompanied by her father, Ziauddin
She says, 'I am excited that today I have achieved my dream of going back to school,' she said. 'I want all girls in the world to have this basic opportunity. I miss my classmates from Pakistan very much but I am looking forward to meeting my teachers and making new friends here in Birmingham.'