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* ThirteenthBirthdayMilestone: On September 27, 2011, Google celebrated its 13th anniversary by [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/google-birthday-doodle-celebrates-companys-13th-anniversary/2011/09/27/gIQAqrMy0K_blog.html displaying a doodle featuring cake, presents, and balloons]].



* ThirteenthBirthdayMilestone: On September 27, 2011, Google celebrated its 13th anniversary by [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/google-birthday-doodle-celebrates-companys-13th-anniversary/2011/09/27/gIQAqrMy0K_blog.html displaying a doodle featuring cake, presents, and balloons]].


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* TyopOnTheCover: Amusingly enough, the company [[https://www.webcitation.org/68ubHzYs7?url=http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html got its name this way]]. The founders were brainstorming names when Sean Anderson suggested naming it after the math term for 10[[superscript:100]], and they were pleasantly surprised that "Google" was available as a web domain. It was only after they registered it that they realized the term is actually spelled ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol Googol]]''. Googol.com was already taken, so the misspelled version stuck.
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[[caption-width-right:350:What's Google? Just [[BrandNameTakeover Google]] it.]]
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->''""The core of what Google is about is bringing information to people."''

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''""The core of what Google is about is bringing information to people."''
-->-- '''Sundar Pichai''', current CEO of Alphabet and Google.

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* PropellerHatOfWhimsy: Keeping in line with the [[WackyStartupWorkplace eccentric]] reputation of its offices, gives all new employees a colorful propeller hat with "Noogler" (New Googler) on it to signify their newness to the company.

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* PropellerHatOfWhimsy: Keeping in line with the [[WackyStartupWorkplace eccentric]] reputation of its offices, Google gives all new employees a colorful propeller hat with "Noogler" (New Googler) on it to signify their newness to the company.
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* PropellerHatOfWhimsy: Keeping in line with the [[WackyStartupWorkplace eccentric]] reputation of its offices, gives all new employees a colorful propeller hat with "Noogler" (New Googler) on it to signify their newness to the company.
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The search engine with the greatest user share, by a large margin. The company that creates/maintains it also works on a wide variety of other products, including things like translators, the webmail provider Gmail, the interactive map Google Earth, the free cloud-based web office suite Google Drive, the web browser Google Chrome (and an operating system of the same name), the UsefulNotes/{{Android}} mobile OS, the social networking hub, Tropers/TheAdvertisementServer. [[https://www.google.com Find it here.]] Website/TVTropes' search engine is also run by Google.

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The search engine with the greatest user share, by a large margin. The company that creates/maintains it also works on a wide variety of other products, including things like translators, the webmail provider Gmail, the interactive map Google Earth, the free cloud-based web office suite Google Drive, the web browser Google Chrome (and an operating system of the same name), the UsefulNotes/{{Android}} Platform/{{Android}} mobile OS, the social networking hub, Tropers/TheAdvertisementServer. [[https://www.google.com Find it here.]] Website/TVTropes' search engine is also run by Google.



* RealLifeWritesThePlot: So many people were searching for pictures of the [[NavelDeepNeckline green Versace dress]] that Music/JenniferLopez wore to the 2000 ''UsefulNotes/{{Grammy Award}}s'' that it singlehandedly led to the creation of Google Images.

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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: So many people were searching for pictures of the [[NavelDeepNeckline green Versace dress]] that Music/JenniferLopez wore to the 2000 ''UsefulNotes/{{Grammy ''MediaNotes/{{Grammy Award}}s'' that it singlehandedly led to the creation of Google Images.



** The "crashed tab" page in Google Chrome looks a lot like the "Sad Mac" icon in old UsefulNotes/{{Apple Macintosh}}es.

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** The "crashed tab" page in Google Chrome looks a lot like the "Sad Mac" icon in old UsefulNotes/{{Apple Platform/{{Apple Macintosh}}es.

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