Outlook – July 20, 2019

YOURS ODDLY

The name Google is a misspelling of the

number googol, that is, 1 followed by a hundred

zeros. It certainly beats the original name,

‘Project Backrub’.

“I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100

01101001 01101110 01100111 001000 00

01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001

00001010 ,” was Google’s first tweet. It means

“I’m feeling lucky” in binary code.

How does a giraffe clean its ears? Is it healthy

to eat boogers? Why isn’t 11 pronounced onety

one? My cat looks like Hitler? Wonder what these

are? These questions feature on the lists of

weirdest searches on Google.

Google rents a herd of 200 goats to maintain

the lawns in its Mountain View headquarters.

It is their eco­friendly alternative to mowers.

“Don’t be evil” was the company’s unofficial

motto since 2000. It was such an integral part of

company culture,

Gizmodo reported, that the

phrase was the password of the office shuttle bus

WiFi. However, in 2018, it removed most instances

of the phrase from the code of conduct that the

company’s employees receive.

Formerly Clusty,

Yippy is a

metasearch engine for

exploring the deep web—

pages that are harder to

locate as they are hosted in private networks. It

locates buried webpages that traditional search

methods cannot find.

Formerly Ask Jeeves, now Ask is based

on a question/answer format. It is

popular for accommodating the natural,

colloquial language. Most of the

questions are answered by other users.

100,000,000 GB

The storage size of the billions of web

pages that Google has indexed

Adswish follows the Google search engine

model for classified ads. It is the one search

engine that promises to deliver just the right

product or service online.

19,605,052

The number of shares Google sold

when it went public. On its

debut, it was valued as

much as General Motors.

ChaCha is a lot more like Ask, where users can ask

any particular question that gets answered by

independent contractors called Guides. Alexa ranks

it as the eighth most popular search engine.

GOOGLE’S INDIA MILESTONES

2012 2015 2017

2005 2009 2014 2016 2018

2004

India

office

set up

2008 YouTube Play

Store

Voice­guided

navigation in Hindi and

Indian­accent English;

Internet Saathi

Daydream View and VR

controller, mobile payment

app Tez, Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL,

India Cloud region in Mumbai;

two­wheeler mode on Google

Maps; Google Assistant on Jio

Google

Maps,

Google

Analytics

Google

Translate

Android One

and

Chromecast

Pixel and

Pixel XL

Google Assistant

in Hindi, Google

Home and Home

Mini

Graphics by SAJI C.S. 22 July 2019 OUTLOOK^35