Where Are They Now?
Google Goes Shopping!
Google Where???
Google Huh????
100
In August 2021 it was revealed that he/she holds a New Zealand resident's visa.
Who is Larry Paige?
100
Now known as Adsense, acquired on April 13, 2007 for $3.1B
DoubleClick
100
Google's first real office location
Where is Menlo Park?
The domain name www.google.com was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage of Susan Wojcicki in Menlo Park, California.
100
When a user types in a search and clicks on this button the user will be taken directly to the first search result, bypassing the search engine results page.
What is the "I'm feeling Lucky" button.
200
Succeeded as CEO of Google Cloud by former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian, She/He retained a seat on the board of Alphabet.
Who is Diane Green?
200
Acquired in 2006 for $1.7B, it is the leading video-sharing platform. This was Google’s first $1B+ acquisition.
What is YouTube?
Through this purchase, Google anticipated the shift from traditional media like TV to online viewing, while also increasing its traffic and growing its ad business.
200
The location of Google Cloud's newest region, announced in August 2021.
Where is Dehli-NCR, India?
200
The number of colors in the Google logo.
What is 4?
300
Joined Google as a software engineer. In 2012, she became the CEO of Yahoo.
After leaving Yahoo! in 2017, Mayer started Sunshine (formerly Lumi Labs).
Who is Marissa Mayer?
300
Acquired in 2017 for $1.1B, 2017, this is a Taiwan-based consumer electronics manufacturer.
What is HTC – Pixel Smartphone Division?
While the acquisition did not include any production facilities, it left Google with a significant part of the company's smartphone team (underlining the Android maker’s focus on competing with iPhone maker Apple) and helped Google establish a manufacturing presence in Taiwan.
300
HQ of Looker
Where is Santa Cruz, CA?
300
The number of zeroes in a googol
What is 100?
The name Google is derived from the term 'googol'. A googol is a 1 with 100 zeroes behind it
400
Formerly Director of Customer Engineering, he left in April 2021 to become SVP Presales at Workday
Who is Josh Rice?
400
This acquisition for $12.5B in 2012 remains Google’s largest acquisition to date.
Was also sold to Lenovo for $2.9B in 2014.
What is Motorola Mobility?
400
Largest office location (by headcount) outside of the US.
What is London?
Google. 139,873
Mountain View 27,215
Sunnyvale 15,557
New York 9,909
San Francisco 6,716
London 5,921
400
Google's original project name, back in Stanford.
What is the "BackRub" Web Crawler project?
In 1996, Page and Brin collaborated on a pioneering “web crawler” concept curiously called BackRub. Some speculate that the early search engine’s nomenclature was a nod to retrieving backlinks. BackRub, which linked to Brin’s and Page’s '90s-tastic original homepages, lived on Stanford’s servers for more than a year, but eventually chewed up too much bandwidth.