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10 Amusing Facts About Google

2008-09-16T22:20:00.001-04:00

10 Amusing Facts About Google

It may sound preposterous with the benefit of hindsight, but only ten years ago, on September 7, 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded their new company, Google. My new blog’s birthdate coincides with that of Google and also the recent launch of Chrome prompted me to make this as my first post on my new blog. Hence the name HitChrome. Here are some amusing facts about Google.

1. Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled the word “googol,” which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. The word was chosen to reflect the company’s goal of organizing the massive amound of information that is available on the Internet.

2. The Google home page is so sparse because the founders did not know HTML and just wanted to create a quick interface.

3. At first, there was not even a “submit” button. Users had to hit the “return” key to generate a Google search.

4. Google’s search technology is called PageRank (tm). It assigns an “importance” value to each page on the Web and gives it a rank. But that is not why the technnology is called PageRank. In fact, it is named after Google co-founder Larry page.

5. Google’s traffic doubled when they introduced their “Did you mean…” feature. This feature was made possible by a much-improved spell checker.

6. Google users apparently never feel “lucky,” since the “I feel lucky” is almost never used. However, in trials it was discovered that users saw it as a comfort button and did not want it removed.

7. Brin and Page would hang out at the Stanford computer science department’s loading docks in hopes of borrowing newly-arrived PCs to use in their network.

8. Google’s first data center was Larry Page’s dorm room.

9. When Page and Brin tried to find buyers to license their search technology, one portal CEO told them “As long as we’re 80 percent as good as our competitors, that’s good enough. Our users don’t really care about search.”

10. The first major investor Andy Bechtolsheim on of the founders of Sun Microsystems wrote a check for $100,000 after seeing a quick demo. At first, there was no way to deposit the $100,000 check. It was made out to “Google Inc.,” but there was no legal entity with that name. The check sat in Page’s desk drawer for two weeks while he and Brin rushed to set up a corporation and locate other investors.

Portable Must-Have Thumb Drive Apps

2008-09-14T20:48:00.003-04:00

You know as well as I do that when you leave the comfort of your computer to a strange one it really bites to know that you don't have some of your favorite programs with you so, I'm here to help you in the best way i know how- with a badass list of portable apps for your flash drive!!!

TrueCrypt – encrypt your thumb drive to protect your information.

Portable Firefox – Leaves no personal information behind on the machine - you can take along your browser/extensions/bookmarks anywhere.

Pidgin Portable – All-in-one instant messaging (supports AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, G-Chat, etc).

FileZilla – another ftp client

Notepad++ - this is one of my favorite text editors – now made portable

GIMP – the popular open source image editor packaged as a portable app – very robust

7-Zip Portable – handles zip, gzip, tar, rar etc

UTorrent – my preferred bit torrent client – I love having this with me wherever I go

Text2Html – a text to HTML converter – converts text files into HTML format

RockXP – allows you to recover windows passwords or keys, change keys, display system password, and more

Portable Apps Suite – this is the mac-daddy of them all – it includes Firefox, Thunderbird(email), Sunbird(calendar),ClamWin (antivirus), Pidgin(see above), Sumatra PDF Readable, KeePass Password Safe, OpenOffice, CoolPlayer (audio Player) and a couple of games.

Software Review: TeamViewer

2008-09-14T18:14:00.004-04:00

First off(website quote),"TeamViewer establishes connections to any PC all around the world within just a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were sitting right in front of it. Find out why more than 15.000.000 users trust TeamViewer!"

Website

I tried this team viewer about a week ago and I wasn’t expecting it to work, but I was really surprised to see it working and working well. This software has amazing features like file transfer, presentation, remote support and vpn. The best use of this software is to provide remote support. Whenever you try to help your family members or friends with problems on their computer via phone or instant messaging most of the times they don’t understand what you are saying or the problem is not communicated properly. But with this software you can fix any computer connected to the internet just by sitting in front of your computer. You just have to install this software on your system and ask the people on the other side to install the same and tell you the ID and password. Once you enter the id and password you will be able to connect to their system. People on the other side can watch what you are doing on their computer screen and can learn how to fix the problem themselves if it happens again, and the login id and password will be valid only for one session.

Obviously, you can think of other ways to use this program but that's up to you to figure out.

The Top 10 Unintentionally Worst Company Urls

2008-09-14T14:37:00.003-04:00

My 1st post so lemme start this right with a BS topic about people that arnt smart enough to use a dash - in their URL

here goes

1. A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is

www.whorepresents.com

2. Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at

www.expertsexchange.com

3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at

www.penisland.net

4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at

www.therapistfinder.com

5. Then of course, there’s the Italian Power Generator company…

www.powergenitalia.com

6. And now, we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales:

www.molestationnursery.com

7. If you’re looking for computer software, there’s always

www.ipanywhere.com

8. Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church. Their website is

www.cummingfirst.com

9. Then, of course, there’s these brainless art designers, and their whacky website:

www.speedofart.com

10. Want to holiday in Lake Tahoe? Try their brochure website at

www.gotahoe.com

so next time you decide to look at porn
you just might end up on a hotel site

Office Games

2008-09-13T23:49:00.005-04:00

Have you ever felt the need to play a game at work but to your dismay, all the gaming sites like miniclip/kongregrate/newgrounds are blocked? Well i've got just the site for you! http://www.1cup1coffee.com/1280.htm it even looks like an WinXp folder so if your boss passes by he'll thing that you're at work and not wasting company time. All the games are flash based and suprisingly addictive! so you'll find yourself keep going back for more, well thats it for now so until next time, enjoy.

First Post!!!

2008-09-13T23:21:00.003-04:00

1St post!!!!! (yes i can and i did)

OK now that that is over, allow us to introduce ourselves: We are a team of bloggers that intend to deliver information about any and everything that we find/know about (tech, hacks, music, pictures, tutorials, downloads, events, sports,etc) the team is as follows:

Wallace
Thekid5000
Jackwaznimble
Drew
Ethical.H

Soon we will fill your heads with tons of 'useful/useless' information (thats for you to decide).

So enjoy, and have a good one