Time for cake in the corridors of Google because the search engine exists 25 years! Where the search engine was once just an idea of two American students, it has now become fully acquired in our society. What questions have we asked Google in recent years?
The creation of Google all started with the American student Larry Page. In 1995, he considered pursuing a master’s degree at Stanford University and was given a tour by Sergey Brin, who was already a student there.
It clicked well between the two and just a year later they came up with the idea of building a search engine for the Internet. In a garage near San Francisco, she founded a small company where the world-changing machine was born. The search engine was first called Backrub, but it was soon renamed Google. That was a pun on “googol,” a mathematical term for a 1 with a hundred zeros.
Two years later, Google Search came to life. The search engine ranked information based on the connections between pages. In the 25 years that followed, Google has grown into one of the most powerful and influential companies in the world.
Search terms
Since the birth of Google, the search engine has proven to be the means to find useful, desperate or even embarrassing questions. For example, with the interrogative pronoun ‘how’, since the past twenty years, the maximum length that Google can view trends, massive searches have been made for:
1. How long?
2. What time is it?
3. How are you?
4. How long pregnant?
5. How long in quarantine?
6. What time Formula 1?
With the term ‘why’, these questions were the most searched for in the Netherlands:
1. Why are bananas crooked?
2. Why Islam?
3. Why solar panels?
Then the most searched questions with the term: ‘what’:
1. What are we eating today?
2. What to do today
3. What is Instagram?
4. What to do in Utrecht?
5. What is LinkedIn?
6. What to do in Groningen?
The questions where ‘when’ was used are:
1. When Pregnant?
2. When do you have a fever?
3. When do you retire?
4. When to vaccinate?
5. When Fertile?
6. When to Easter?
7. When press conference?
8. When is Mother’s Day?
9. When do you ovulate?
10. When tax refund?
Worldwide
Around the world, the most searched terms over the last 20 years have been:
1. Facebook
2. YouTube
3. Google
4. Weather
5. News
6. Hotmail
7. Yahoo
8. Videos
9. Gmail
10. Amazon