History Website / Google

** For Creator/JimHenson's 75th birthday they had a special puppet [[hottip:note:Google worked with The Jim Henson Company on the project, which had sold the Muppet trademark to Disney in 2004.]] logo: you could make them eat each other.

** For Creator/JimHenson's 75th birthday they had a special Muppet logo: you could make them eat each other.

* EasterEgg: There are various words and phrases that will produce a special result when searched either through the normal button or the I'm Feeling Lucky button. Google knows that the answer to The Ultimate Question is 42. And you won't find Chuck Norris before he finds you. Doing a barrel roll spins the screen and looking for a Zerg Rush will cause one.

* TranslationTrainWreck: Google Translate whenever it touches Latin, tends to mistake it for French. Similarly, Japanese and most other Asian languages.

The search engine with the greatest user share, by a large margin. The company that creates/maintains it also works on a wide variety of other products, including things like translators, the interactive map [=GoogleEarth=], the web browser Google Chrome, the social networking hub Website/GooglePlus, TheAdvertisementServer, and one of thier most successful products Website/YouTube. [[http://www.google.com Find it here.]] Wiki/TVTropes' search engine is also run by Google.

** Also, it says [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "He's dead, Jim"]].

* SdrawkcabName: [[http://elgoog.im/ Elgoog]] si osla desu ni anihC ot teg dnuora eht nab.

The search engine with the greatest user share, by a large margin. The company that creates/maintains it also works on a wide variety of other products, including things like translators, Website/YouTube, the interactive map [=GoogleEarth=], the web browser Google Chrome, the social networking hub Website/GooglePlus, and TheAdvertisementServer. [[http://www.google.com Find it here.]] Wiki/TVTropes' search engine is also run by Google.

* UnwinnableJokeGame: Type "ZergRush" and you'll get to play a game where you must defend your search results against a bunch of O's. There's too many of them, and they'll eventually defeat you.

* TheFireflyEffect: The subject of [[http://washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/21/googles-trust-problem/ this Washington Post article]], when Google Reader joined the company's graveyard of discontinued services.
-->If there's even a 25 percent chance that Google Keep will be canceled in two years, do you really want to be the sucker who spent endless hours organizing your life around it?

** For {{Pac-Man}}'s 30th birthday, the Google logo changed to a playable level of Pac-Man, ''and'' it remains playable [[http://www.google.com/pacman here.]]
** On the 70th birthday of JohnLennon, Google logo was an animation set to an audio clip of Imagine.
** Similarly, on [[{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]]'s 65th birthday, the logo became an animated video clip for "Don't Stop Me Now".

* GoodBadTranslation: Most of their stuff on Google Translate.

* MeaningfulName: Named after the before mentioned Googol.

** For Jim Henson's 75th birthday they had a special Muppet logo- you could make them eat each other.
** Inverted in ''Film/{{The Muppets}}'' where Google makes a cameo as Scooter's place of employment during the TimeCompressionMontage.

* {{Retreaux}}: For AprilFoolsDay in 2012, Google Maps was ''entirely'' redone in the style of the NES DragonQuest games.
* SdrawkcabName: [[http://elgoog.im/ Elgoog.moc]] osla desu ni anihC ot teg dnuora eht nab.
* ShoutOut: The "crashed tab" page in Google Chrome looks a lot like the "Sad Mac" icon in old [[AppleMacintosh Macs]].

* UnwinnableJokeGame: Type [[{{VideoGame/Starcraft}} "Zerg Rush"]] and you'll get to play a game where you must defend your search results against a bunch of O's. There's too many of them, and they'll eventually defeat you.

[[AC: Welcome to Google. Please type your search request on the taskbar below.]]
::@@Search[=:=] Tv Tropes@@
::@@I'm Feeling Lucky@@
[[AC: Result 1 of about 3,320,000 results (0.12 seconds)]]

* MegaCorp[=/=]NGOSuperPower: One of the biggest examples over the Internet, it even went toe to toe with China (verbally) and tied.
** It should be said that they only tied China because they thought it wasn't worth the effort.

* [[NotSafeForWork Not Safe for Google]]: They do love to control what people search. And we've had [[Administrivia/TheSituation two]] [[Administrivia/TheSecondGoogleIncident faceoffs]] with them proclaiming that our site is actually this trope. Even better, [[http://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/ this perfectly safe-for-work-except-when-you-search-it list]] notes every word Google blacklisted on Instant. In other words, the results stop appearing after you typed them after a certain point (in the list, the first Capitalized letter), but they have... ''[[MindScrew weird]]'' priorities.

* NGOSuperPower[=/=]MegaCorp: One of the biggest examples over the Internet, it even went toe to toe with China (verbally) and tied.

* AGoodNameForARockBand: Admit it, you've typed a weird query at one time that could easily be one.

* ZergRush: No, seriously. Try searching [[VideoGame/{{Starcraft}} "zerg rush"]] on the Google homepage. Go on - we'll still be here when you've finally pulled your [[JawDrop jaw off the floor]].

* [[NotSafeForWork Not Safe for Google]]: They do love to control what people search. And we've had [[Administrivia/TheSituation two]] [[Administrivia/TheSecondGoogleIncident faceoffs]] with them proclaiming that our site is actually this trope. Even better, [[http://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/ this perfectly safe-for-work-except-when-you-search-it list]] notes every word Google blacklisted on Instant. In other words, the results stop appearing after you typed them after a certain point (in the list, the first Capitalized letter), but they have...''[[MindScrew weird]]'' priorities.

* AGodAmI: According to The Church of Google.

* BannedInChina: If RealLife were fiction, this would be a {{deconstruction}}: For a time, Google caved in to China's demand for censorship to avoid being banned. Then later, amid suspicions that the Chinese Government was trying to spy on Gmail users, they apparently decided it wasn't worth it and left the country entirely.

* GoodBadTranslation: Most of their stuff on Google Translate.

The search engine with the greatest user share by a large margin. Also the company that creates/maintains it and a wide variety of other products, including things like translators, {{Website/YouTube}}, the interactive map [=GoogleEarth=], the web browser Google Chrome, the social networking hub Website/GooglePlus, and TheAdvertisementServer. [[http://www.google.com Find it here.]] Wiki/TVTropes' search engine is also run by Google.

* TheCameo: Google itself appears in ''{{Hitch}}'' and during the TimeCompressionMontage in ''Film/{{The Muppets}}''. Additionally, Google Earth is featured in ''Film/{{Crank}}'', as well as a map in later seasons of both ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' and ''Series/CashCab''.

* MuppetCameo: For Jim Henson's 75th birthday they had a special Muppet logo- you could make them eat each other.

* TheCameo: Google itself appears in ''{{Hitch}}'' and during the TimeCompressionMontage in ''Film/{{The Muppets}}''. Additionally, Google Earth is featured in ''Film/{{Crank}}'', as well as a map in later seasons of both ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' and ''CashCab''.

* TheCameo: Google itself appears in ''{{Hitch}}'' and during the TimeCompressionMontage in ''Film/{{The Muppets}}''. Additionally, Google Earth is featured in ''Film/{{Crank}}'', as well as a map in later seasons of both ''TheAmazingRace'' and ''CashCab''.

The search engine with the greatest user share by a large margin. Also the company that creates/maintains it and a wide variety of other products, including things like translators, {{Website/YouTube}}, the interactive map [=GoogleEarth=], the web browser Google Chrome, the social networking hub GooglePlus, and TheAdvertisementServer. [[http://www.google.com Find it here.]] This site's search engine is also run by Google.

The search engine with the greatest user share by a large margin. Also the company that creates/maintains it and a wide variety of other products, including things like translators, {{Website/YouTube}}, the interactive map [=GoogleEarth=], the web browser Google Chrome, the social networking hub Google+, and TheAdvertisementServer. [[http://www.google.com Find it here.]] This site's search engine is also run by Google.

Not to be confused with a googol, which is equal to 10[[superscript:100]].[[hottip:*:That number is 1e100 in exponential notation, and the reverse DNS lookup for www.google.com shows that it lives on the 1e100.net network.]]