How Google-smart are you, really? Part II: Interesting facts you didn't know!

Here’s the promised follow-up on the two-part series:  “How Google-smart are you?”  Because Google is so much a part of our every-day lives, it’s fun to find out some of the quirky stories and oddities that belong to likely the most significant societal development in the last half century.  Absent Google, the way we [as consumers] buy and [as producers] sell, the way we go about our affairs would be very different—and now, post-Google, what we would all consider to be so old-fashion! 

There’s a lot of material floating out in cyberspace about Google, but much of it is redundant.  I’ve taken the liberty to pull together here in this post, what I think captures the key insights [as well as trivia and folk-lore] behind the organization that changed--and continues to change--the world and our daily lives. 

In an “Evening with Marissa Mayer” by Alan Williamson does a nice job of capturing first-hand what’s interesting about Google from a Google insider.  For those who have not “met” or heard about Marissa, she is a sharp young woman who is presently the Vice President, Search Products & User Experience at Google; she leads the company's product management efforts on search products.  At the time of Mr. Williamson’s occasion to be at a presentation of hers, she was, back in 2005, a Product Manager. 

At the center of the Google experience and all Google-related phenomena is the search process.  I found a Yahoo site to be helpful and insightful on this score.  RTMLWise is a Yahoo Store Design and Solution Company that offers complete Yahoo Store custom graphic designs, functionality and layout/design improvements and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).  It ran a short piece, “Interesting facts about Google search engine,” worth reading if you’re interested in a behind the scenes POV of what “drives” the Google experience. 

Finally, it makes perfect sense to let Google itself weigh-in with some interesting facts.  Google handles, metaphorically-speaking, a ton of information for its users. Here—from Google itself--are some little-known pieces of insider lore about Google.

Bet this is more than you needed about Google!  Like a Google search—where the search result entries go on and on—just consider this just the first three sites to be shown!  

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