Google Facts

1406 days ago

Read here: 16 Interesting Facts About Google. As you guys know, I am normally not a Google fan. Sure, they do run the best Search Engine out there. But that’s because...

Read here: 16 Interesting Facts About Google.

As you guys know, I am normally not a Google fan. Sure, they do run the best Search Engine out there. But that’s because the rest of the Search Engines are just plain crap. Yes, I admit that it is not easy to create a perfect Search Engine, but it just seems to me that Google is not concentrating on their Search Engine anymore. That’s the result of lack of competition. We don’t see any major improvement in their Search Engine results and listings for about a few years already. It’s been stagnant like a whale stranded on the beach. Okay, okay, sure we do see Orkut, Blogger and Youtube and other nonsense. Yes, they do have a lot of visitors from these sites and yes, they are modern social sites with quite a following. But how will that affect the Search Engine industry? In my opinion, it won’t. I feel that these social sites are unrelated to Search Engine although we do see them often bundled together.

Anyways, before I go off topic yet again, I am here to talk about some interesting facts about Google. I guess you have read the article I have linked to at the top of the post. The most interesting is number 12. It seems that they do read emails! For a company which probably get thousands of emails everyday (most of them would be spam I gather), it’s great to hear that they do read emails. At the very least, I know that it has gone through one real human’s eyes if I send emails to them. That would actually be good news for spammers!

I am also shocked to hear that the “I’m feeling lucky” button is seldom used. It is true that I don’t use it either but don’t their users feel adventurous enough when accessing Google to use that button? Or do they not have confident on Google to provide them with the best Search result? They should remove the button name “I’m feeling lucky” to something more mundane like “Go to the first result”. I am sure that more people will click on that instead of the “I’m feeling lucky” button. It’s human nature.

And oh, it seems that the founders of Google don’t know HTML. Now, that’s really very shocking. Even I know basic HTML.