Why is Google called 'Google'

The goal of Sergey Brin and Larry page (the Google founders) was to create a search engine that could hold the entire world wide web, and to make it accessible extremely quickly to the public. The name Google comes from ‘googol’, which is a very large number; a 1 followed by one hundred '0's. They had to modify the spelling since googol.com was already taken.

If you use Google frequently you would have noticed how they often play around with the logo, this is one of the things that makes Google 'friendly' and somewhat welcoming. Here is an example of the Google logo modified for Halloween:

"Now you can search the equivalent of a stack of paper more than 70 miles high in less then half a second...- we think that's pretty cool." Larry Page

Ironic Titanic.

In 1898 Morgan Robertson wrote a short novel called the Wreck of the Titan. He described the journey of an unsinkable luxurious ship known as the Titan. He described it as the following- ‘the titan was 800 feet long, weighed 75,000 tons, had three propellers and 24 lifeboats and was packed with rich passengers. Cruising at 25 knots the Titan's hull was ripped apart when it hit and iceberg in April. Most of the passengers were lost because there weren't enough lifeboats.’

Now for what happened to the Titanic fourteen years later (1912):

The Titanic was considered the safest ship afloat. It was 882.5 feet long, weighed 66,000 tons and had three propellers. Along with 22 lifeboats and carried many rich passengers. Late on the night of April 14, the ship hit an iceberg sailing at 23 knots. The iceberg tore a hole in its hull and upended the ship. Over 1,500 people died because there weren’t enough lifeboats.

Taken from 'the biggest ever bathroom reader'.

Cool Ads

This is just a post of some of the coolest ads I've come across in the past few months:

Tell me which one you like best!