Google’s real birthday is known to only a few… however, the consensus is that Google has at least six different birthdays. Officially, Google chooses to celebrate its birthday on September 27. Using Google’s official birthdate – September 27, 1998 – this year Google celebrated its 21st birthday. It seems like Google has been around forever, doesn’t it?<\/span><\/p>\n In honor of Google’s 21st birthday, here are 8 things that you may not know about Google.<\/span><\/p>\n 1.) Google owns common misspellings of its name such as gooogle.com, gogle.com, and googlr.com, and automatically redirects users to the correct address.<\/span><\/p>\n 2.) Google was willing to sell to online company Excite in 1999 for $1 million but Excite rejected the offer. Google is worth some $120 billion today. Yep, Excite is still around. If you open Excite<\/a> and try their search engine, you’ll see why they should have spent that $1 million twenty years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n 3.) If you go to www.google.com<\/a> and look up the word “askew” or “tilt” (no quotes), you’ll find all the results are skewed.<\/span><\/p>\n 4.) Go to www.google.com<\/a> and search for the term “Blink HTML” (no quotes) and look for the blinking text.<\/span><\/p>\n 5.) Visit www. google.com<\/a> and search for “Google in 1998” (no quotes) and you’ll see how Google looked in its first year.<\/span><\/p>\n 6.)\u00a0<\/span> At the Googleplex, Google’s headquarters in California’s Silicon Valley, there is a giant statue of a T-Rex dinosaur, which is often covered in flamingos. Rumour has it that this is a reminder to Google employees not to allow the company to go extinct. Too bad Montgomery Ward, Studebaker, and other extinct company didn’t do that. Would it have helped?<\/span><\/p>\n 7.)\u00a0 Just one Google search uses around the same amount of computing power it took to send the Apollo 11 astronauts to the Moon.<\/span><\/p>\n 8.)\u00a0 Google’s headquarters in California is huge with plenty of greenery. But Google doesn’t use lawnmowers,\u00a0 it uses goats to keep the grass trimmed.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google’s 21st Birthday: 8 Things You May Not Know About Google Google’s real birthday is known to only a few… however, the consensus is that Google has at least six different birthdays. Officially, Google chooses to celebrate its birthday on September 27. Using Google’s official birthdate – September 27, 1998 – this year Google celebrated its\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2247,2270],"tags":[31,381,3500,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17689"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17699,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17689\/revisions\/17699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/tilt.png\")
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