We have collected Some Amazing Facts about the Biggest, the Most Famous and the widely used Website, Google.
Let’s Check ‘em out:
Let’s Check ‘em out:
A. The main reason for the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders did not know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
B. Due to the scarcity of the homepage, in early user tests have shown people sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked him and he said “Whats up?” We hope you enjoy the rest. “To solve this particular problem has been included copyright message from Google to act as an indicator of gross final page.
C. One of the biggest jumps in the use of research came when he presented his much improved spell checker giving birth to the “Did you mean …” characteristic. This instantly doubled their traffic, but we had some interesting discussions about the best way to make such information, as most people simply tuned that. But have discovered positioning the bottom of the results was the most effective.
D. The infamous “I feel lucky” is nearly never used. However, in the studies, it was found that the removal somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted saved. It was a comfort button.
E. Orkut is popular in Brazil. Orkut was the brainchild of a very intelligent Google engineer who was pretty much given free rein to run with it, without having to go through the normal procedures of the user interface of Google, hence why they do not look or feel like an application Google. They are trying to improve Orkut to cope with the burdens imposed by the system.
F. Google makes changes small and often. Sometimes it feels like a particular aspect of a group of users to a particular subnet, for example Excite @ Home users often to see what’s new. It does not say this, just presented with the new UI and observed how they use it.
G. Google has the largest network of translators in the world
H. They use 20% / 5% rules. If at least 20% of people use a feature, then be included. At least 5% of people who need to use a special investigation preferably before it is on “Advanced”.
I. They found evidence of use, a small number of people are very typical of the wider user base. They run labs continually and always monitoring how people use a page of search results.
J. The name “Google” it was an accident. A spelling mistake on the part of the founders who thought they were going to ‘Googol’
k. Gmail was used internally for nearly two years before the public release. It was discovered that there were 6 types of e-mail users, Gmail and has been designed to accommodate these 6.
l. We have heard active feedback. Sending an e-mail from Google is not an e-mail blackhole.
M. Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their projects. Google News, Orkut are examples of projects that have emerged from this working model.
N. This was not a technical talk so no information regarding any infrastructure was presented however, ask a mantra to convert each page in 500 ms, the representation.




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