Google History
Google was originally known as what? When Brin and Page first developed an algorithm for searching the net, they dubbed it this name. This algorithm was then used to measure and rank the importance of webpages based on inbound links; the skeleton of what would become Google Search was formed.
What is Project Backrub?
In 1980, Apple declared there would be no more of these items inside its buildings and on its grounds.
Apple Computer president Mike Scott wrote an internal memo to all employees on February 1, 1980, declaring the end of typewriter use at the company and stating, “If Word Processing is so neat, then let’s all us it!”
Syntax logic & runtime are the 3 basic types of these programming boo-boos also a baseball term.
What is an Error?
Microsoft earns around this amount of money yearly in patent royalties, from the sale of Android devices.
What is $2B?
What does the “E” stand for in the name of the American restaurant chain Chuck E. Cheese?
What is Entertainment?
The first Google computer was made from this.
What is Lego?
What year did Microsoft ship Windows 1.0?
On November 20, 1985, Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0, a then-new operating system.
Windows had been announced in 1983, and with development taking two years, skeptics called it “vaporware.”
It's the basic unit of information in the powerful machines called quantum computers
What is a Cubit?
Google had to made a deal with this company in order to use the name for Android version 4.4.
What is Nestle for Kit Kat?
What is the French culinary term for a dish that has been covered with breadcrumbs or grated cheese and browned?
What is Au gratin?
Google's first chef was a former caterer for?
Who is the Grateful Dead?
In 1999, Google’s employees (all 40 of them) held a cook-off to determine who to hire as head chef. Charlie Ayers, former caterer for American rock band, The Grateful Dead, won the competition and held the position for 7 years.
This Motorolan made the first call from a handheld mobile phone in 1973.
Who is Marty Cooper?
The first electronic computer weighed more than 27 tons and took up 1800 square feet.
What is Eniac?
The Logging System of Android has a method named as “wtf()” which stands for?
What is "What a Terrible Failure"?
Which fast food restaurant chain once tested bubble gum broccoli as a children’s menu item?
What is McDonald's?
Google rented this to maintain grounds at Mountain View headquarter?
What is 200 goats?
Since 2009, Google has replaced lawnmowers with a herd of 200 goats to maintain the lawns at its Mountain View HQ. Google hires the goats for about a week at a time, allowing them to graze on the grass, clear the weeds, and fertilise the grounds.
Dan Hoffman, director of real estate and workplace services at Google California, claims it costs about the same as mowing, adding, “Goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawnmowers.”
This is the only US president to have received a US patent?
Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent on May 22, 1849, for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river.
The first 5MB hard drive weighed approximately this amount?
What is over a ton?
The word Android refers to a male robot, whereas a female robot is known as this.
What is a Gynoid?
What ingredient is added to white sugar to make brown sugar?
What is Molasses?
Google acquired YouTube via meetings at this restaurant.
What is Denny's?
Who was acknowledged as the true inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress in 2002?
On June, 11, 2002, the United States Congress acknowledged Italian immigrant Antonio Meucci as the true inventor of the telephone, capping off his long story as an inventor that involved patent scandal, poverty, and possibly theft.
What is the oldest web browser still in general use and development?
What is Lynx?
Initially, Android was developed as an operating system for this hardware but later on it focuses on Smart Phones.
What is a digital camera?
Founded in 1921, this company was credited with being the first “fast food” chain?
What is White Castle?