Yr 10 - Surprising Facts about YouTube and Google by Gareth Owen https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u Post your research finding here. Check that your fact is not the same as someone else on here. Remember to give your name to the post en-us 2019-05-12 23:01:59 UTC 2019-05-27 05:26:28 UTC hello@padlet.com Pham Hoang Anh https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/359323524
Google was originally named BackRub.
In 1996, Page and Brin collaborated on a pioneering "web crawler" concept curiously called BackRub. Some speculate that the early search engine’s nomenclature was a nod to retrieving backlinks. BackRub, which linked to Brin’s and Page’s 90s-tastic original homepages, lived on Stanford’s servers for more than a year, but eventually chewed up too much bandwidth.

]]> 2019-05-13 04:26:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/359323524 Ha Phuong https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/359503411 Google saw the potential of Youtube and bought it in 2006 at a price of $1.65mil, 18 months after the website was launched

]]> 2019-05-13 14:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/359503411 Nguyen Minh Hanh https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361595719  Youtube is the 3rd most visited website in the world and the 2nd largest search engine just right after Google]]> 2019-05-20 03:57:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361595719 Hoang Nguyen https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361596256 Nowadays, Youtube’s annual revenue hovers approximately $15 billion. This had led Wall Street analysts to give the brand a value of more than $100 billion.]]> 2019-05-20 04:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361596256 Khanh Linh Bui https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361596462 In June 2007, YouTube started rolling out localised versions of its site. People in different places would get different recommendations and features, as well as a localised top-level domain (for example, .com, .co.uk, .fr, etc.). The first 10 countries to get their own YouTube site were the U.S., U.K., Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain.
=> 60% of YouTube's 1,000 most popular videos are blocked in Germany.]]> 2019-05-20 04:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361596462 Hoang Thu Trang https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361596642
YouTube was blocked in Thailand for 5 months in 2007 over a 44 second video showing defaced pictures of the king. ]]> 2019-05-20 04:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361596642 Nhat Linh https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361596945 Youtube actually started as a video dating site named “Tune In Hook Up”.  However, the three founders decided to change their intentions and then led to the creation of Youtube. ]]> 2019-05-20 04:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361596945 Duc Duy https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361596947 Google was originally named BackRub]]> 2019-05-20 04:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361596947 Yen Linh https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361596959
Google employees in the US get death benefits which guarantee that the surviving spouse will receive 50% of their salary every year for the next decade


]]> 2019-05-20 04:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361596959 Duong Khanh Linh https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361597314 Google is spelled wrong. It is actually written as "Googol", referring to the impossibly large number of the same name which means the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros. When the founders realised their mistake they decided not to correct it.]]> 2019-05-20 04:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361597314 bao anh https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361597785
YouTube’s Annual April Fools Pranks and the First Rickroll

YouTube plays pranks on its millions of users every year on April Fool’s Day. The first incident was on the homepage of the site that was actually a Rickroll. In 2009, YouTube surprised its users when it turned the website upside down. Since starting the April Fool’s Day tradition, every year YouTube comes up with something unique to keep the trend alive.


]]> 2019-05-20 04:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361597785 Vuong Gia Uy https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361597875 Google wasn’t always the world’s second most valuable brand. Long before it was a go-to verb, it was an obedient digital dog, merely finding and retrieving stuff, playing fetch for internet users over and over again.]]> 2019-05-20 04:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/361597875 Thuong Chau DO NOT TRY THIS WITHOUT PARENTAL PERMISSION. https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363644359

Go to Google homepage and type the words “I want to commit suicide”. Above all the search results, Google provides the Suicide Helpline number of your country.]]> 2019-05-27 04:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363644359 Trung Kien https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363644452
Google used a web tool called foo.bar to recruit new employees based on what they search for online ]]> 2019-05-27 04:03:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363644452 Mai Linh https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363644706 Go to Google map. Click on the satellite view and zoom out as much as possible. You can see an amazing view of earth with real time shadows. You can see real time clouds if you zoom in twice]]> 2019-05-27 04:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363644706 Duc Hien duchien_tran https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363644878 The YouTube.com domain was bought on Valentine’s Day, 2005. The first video was posted by co-founder Jawed Karim a little over two months later.]]> 2019-05-27 04:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363644878 Hoang Nam Khanh https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363645151 A long time ago back in the earliest days of Google’s development at Stanford University, the company’s search engine algorithm was stored on 10 separate 4GB hard drives. ]]> 2019-05-27 04:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363645151 google have a t-rex at there headquarterin california . name Stan. The founder bought it to remind that google will never be extinct https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363645230 nhat minh]]> 2019-05-27 04:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363645230 Kiet https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363645577 Originally, the search engine running on the Stanford servers was called Backrub, until it consumed too much bandwidth. The name came about because the algorithm finds and ranks pages based on back links. The modern Google name is a play on the word “googol”, a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes.]]> 2019-05-27 04:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363645577 https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363645609 Google was originally named Backrub]]> 2019-05-27 04:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363645609 Trung https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363645699 The first video in YouTube are recorded by jawed Karin and the title of this video are Me at the zoo on April 23,2005]]> 2019-05-27 04:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gareth_owen1/uyasgbstqd3u/wish/363645699