History Website / Google

** There are various words and phrases that will produce a special result when searched them. For example, Google knows that the answer to The Ultimate Question is [[Literature/HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy 42]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI A video by Numberphile]] has its view count permanently frozen at 301 views, a MythologyGag to how view counts at one point would stay at that number before they were legitimatized.

* MegaCorp: 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.

* TyopOnTheCover: Amusingly enough, the company [[[[https://www.webcitation.org/68ubHzYs7?url=http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html got its name this way]]. The founders were brainstorming names when Sean Anderson suggested naming it after the math term for 10[[superscript:100]], and they were pleasantly surprised that "Google" was available as a web domain. It was only after they registered it that they realized the term is actually spelled ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol Googol]]''. Googol.com was already taken, so the misspelled version stuck.

* GoodBadTranslation: Much of the output from Google Translate.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI A video by Numberphile]] has it's view count permanently frozen at 301 views, a MythologyGag to how view counts at one point would stay at that number before they were legitimatized.

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8 Youtube version]] of ''Series/TooManyCooks'' features the video title in the font and color used for cast credits.

[[caption-width-right:344: Enjoy that logo, because [[LogoGag you'll rarely ever see it on the actual site]].]]

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 webmail provider Gmail, the interactive map Google Earth, the web browser Google Chrome (and an operating system of the same name), Android, the social networking hub Website/GooglePlus, TheAdvertisementServer, and one of their most successful products, Website/YouTube. [[http://www.google.com Find it here.]] Wiki/TVTropes' search engine is also run by Google.

* CargoCult: [[http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/ The Church of Google.]]

* 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.
** As this site is owned by Google, Tv Tropes would like to say that it welcomes it's new corporate overlords.

* The character Ruby in ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' starts out as TheIngenue, but she's not only bright, [[http://www.stickydillybuns.com/strips-sdb/What_is_best_for_her she's a compulsive Google user.]] Which explains how she adapts to life in a sex comedy so rapidly.

* The character Ruby in ''Webcomic/StckyDillyBuns'' starts out as TheIngenue, but she's not only bright, [[http://www.stickydillybuns.com/strips-sdb/What_is_best_for_her she's a compulsive Google user.]] Which explains how she adapts to life in a sex comedy so rapidly.

** In Google Earth, pressing Ctrl+Alt+A or Command+Option+A lets you play VideoGame/MicrosoftFlightSimulator over where you are. [[DeveloperForesight It's even fully compatible with the Sidewinder joystick]].

* 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.

** The "crashed tab" page in Google Chrome looks a lot like the "Sad Mac" icon in old {{Apple Macintosh}}es.

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 webmail provider Gmail, the interactive map Google Earth, the web browser Google Chrome (and an operating system of the same name), Android, the social networking hub Website/GooglePlus, TheAdvertisementServer, and one of their most successful products, Website/YouTube. [[http://www.google.com Find it here.]] It also has a mirror site called [[http://www.kidrex.org/ KidRex]], a {{bowdlerise}}d version of Google for kids. The only difference is that [=KidRex=] blacklists inappropriate sites. Wiki/TVTropes' search engine is also run by Google.

* DevelopersForesight: It's amazing what you can do in the search bar. Regarding the safe-for-kids Kidrex mirror site, if you try to search for something inappropriate (e.g. porn), it'll give you an image saying "Oops! Try again!" in place of where the results would be.

* AprilFoolsDay: Google has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_hoaxes an entire page]] on TheOtherWiki for their annual jokes.

* {{Usenet}}: [[http://groups.google.com/ Google Groups]] hosts archives of discussion oriented newsgroups going back to 1981.

* BuiltWithLEGO: Google built its first server racks out of Franchise /{{LEGO}} bricks.

* BuiltWithLEGO: Google built its first server racks out of Toys/{{LEGO}} bricks.

* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: [[http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-elmer One of the languages]] that can be set via search settings. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything It gives you the option to switch back to English if you don't want it to be the default language]].

* LeetLingo: [[http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-hacker One of the languages]] that can be set via search settings. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything It gives you the option to switch back to English if you don't want it to be the default language]].

** Swedish Chef's "bork bork bork" [[http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-bork is one of the languages]] that can be set via search settings. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything It gives you the option to switch back to English if you don't want it to be the default language]].

* TalkLikeAPirate: [[http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-pirate One of the languages]] that can be set via search settings. [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything It gives you the option to switch back to English if you don't want it to be the default language.]]

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: It's amazing what you can do in the search bar. Regarding the safe-for-kids Kidrex mirror site, if you try to search for something inappropriate (e.g. porn), it'll give you an image saying "Oops! Try again!" in place of where the results would be

* CouchGag: For certain holidays, anniversaries, and other events, a special version of the Google logo (known as a "Google Doodle") will be created to commemorate a given event, usually outsourced to a specific artist. An archive of the Doodle variants used to date can be found [[http://www.google.com/doodles here]].

** On the 70th birthday of Music/JohnLennon, Google logo was an animation set to an audio clip of Imagine.