The most popular search engine was invented by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in September, 1998. They named it Google, after Googol which means number 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name itself said about the amount of information that the search engine stored. It was in 1995 that Sergey Brin, a Soviet born computer scientist and Larry Page, an American computer scientist met at Stanford University as computer science graduates. By January’ 96 both started writing a program on a search engine Backrub which had the quality of back link analysis. After the success of this joint venture, they began their work at Google. They started with making of a server using obsolete, cheap and used PC’s. They spent all their money, took credits and looked for cheap hardware. They failed in finding finance to get Google licensed.

After a lot of improvement, when the demo for the same was given to Andy Bechtolsheim, the co founder of Sun Microsystems, he at once wrote a cheque for $ 1,00,000. In the same year Google opened its office in Menlo Park, California and Google.com was answering 10,000 queries everyday. In 2000 Google was released in ten more languages.

Amazing and interesting facts about Google say that people all round the globe send search requests to Google everyday, it got its name by spelling mistake from Googol to Google, it has the largest network of translators in the world, the homepage of Google is available in 88 languages and Google shares 33% of global English- language searches.

Who invented Plastic?

There are various types of plastic that have been invented. The first plastic was created by Alexander Parkes in 1855 and was termed Parkesine. Parkesine was later termed as celluloid. The development and the technology for the creation of plastics have undergone a major change. Plastics are usually polymers and have a high molecular mass. Sometimes other materials are also added to increase the performance or even to reduce the costs. The word plastic is derived from the Greek word ‘Plastos’, which means ‘being molded’. Plastic has great malleability ability and can be molded in various products and objects.

Plastics are produced from petroleum and natural gas and are made in two types. There are various types of plastics. Cellulose based plastics were made by Alexander Parkes where the cellulose was treated with nitric acid and a solvent and was dissolved in alcohol and hardened. Bakelite is another form of plastic that was created as synthetic polymer and was made from a combination of phenol and formaldehyde and was created by Leo Hendrik Baekeland through the synthesis methods in 1907.

Soon after the WWI, technological innovations led to improvements in chemical technology and new types of plastics such as polystyrene (PS) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) were developed by IG Farben, Germany. Other types of plastics include Nylon, Synthetic rubber and rubber.

USELESS FACTS

• The term rule of thumb comes from the old English law that men couldn't beat their wives with anything wider than their thumb.
• Less than one percent of people who entered Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp survived, after being liberated by the Russians in 1945.
• American poet Edgar Allan Poe was once thrown out of West Point Academy in 1831 after showing up for inspection stark naked.
• A monkey's skull wrapped in leather and paper was used as a soccer ball in the very first World's Cup Soccer Championships in Uruguay.
• Ants never sleep in their wholelife.
• A reward of $1,000 was offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of a man robbing taxi drivers. The man turned himself in and demanded the reward as a result. He received a 20 year sentence for aggravated robbery instead.
• The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph. 
• Elvis Presley's hip-wiggling started out as a stage fright. He was so nervous, that his legs would shake.
• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
• A man was arrested and charged with the robbery—of vending machines. The man posted bail, entirely in quarters.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
• The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 
• Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
• Abdul Kassam Ismael, Grand Vizier of Persia in the tenth century, carried his library with him wherever he went. Four hundred camels carried the 117,000 volumes.
• Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" 
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
• Experts at Intel say that microprocessor speed will double every 18 months for at least 10 years.
• Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
• In 1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
• Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."