google tid bit

• Google’s original name was BackRub.

• The Google logo was never centered (as it appears today). It only appeared centered in March 2001. It was aligned to the left earlier.

• Google is a play on the word googol, a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects Google’s mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
  
• Google’s First Logo Was Created Using GIMP and Mimicked Yahoo!
  
  

• Google logo font is Catbull BQ
• Google often makes special modifications, known as Google Doodles.The doodles are currently designed by Dennis Hwang who has created over 150 doodles since the year 2000

http://www.google.com/logos/

• Google’s employees are known as Googlers.

• The company headquarters is called the Googleplex.