Take a look at picture 1 - Auto rickshaw has got a first aid box on the left and a newspaper box on right (which had all Hindi -English - Marathi - Gujarati newspapers including economic times)
Take a look at picture 2 - which has got a TV on the top with cable and below that is the tissue box, calendar, a notepad and pen along with a blue fan (which is blowing towards the customer who sits)
Take a look at picture 3 - 25% discount for handicap!! Who on this earth can expect something like this from a rickshawala.
The photographer spoke to that person and found him so much interesting and creative. He was telling some new stuff he is going to do more for the customers to be happy.
The name Google is a spelling error. The founders of the site, Larry page and Sergey Brin, thought they were going for 'Googol.' Googol is the mathematical term for 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
The reason the google page is so bare is because the founder didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.
Google started as a research project by Larry page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 and 23 years respectively. Google's mission statement is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Google receives about 20 million search queries each day from every part of the world, including Antarctica and Vatican.
In the earliest stage of Google, there was no submit button, rather the Enter key needed to be pressed.
The Google’s free web mail service Gmail was used internally for nearly two years prior to launch to the public. The researchers found out six types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these six.
It would take 5,707 years for a person to search Google's 3 billion pages. The Google software does it in 0.5 seconds.
The logos that appear on the Google homepage during noteworthy days and dates and important events are called Google Doodle. The company has also created an online museum where it has all the logos it has put on various occasions so far.
You have heard of Google Earth, but not many know there is a site called Google Moon, which maps the lunar surface.
Keyhole, the satellite imaging company that Google acquired in October 2004 was funded by CIA.
Best Common Spaces: Built in 1936, the landmark Imperial Hotel, with its parade of palm trees, glossy Italian marble floors, teak furnishings and high ceilings, will make you feel like you should have arrived on elephant, sword on hip. But don't worry; the spacious rooms--the Deco suites are particularly stunning--have all the modern conveniences. Ask the resident curator to guide you through the hotel's hanging collection of British art.
Best Business Hotel: Bangalore, India's third-largest city, has morphed into a hip, global technology center, attracting CEOs from Google, Yahoo!, IBM, Honeywell, and, of course, Bill Gates. The Leela Palace offers great accommodations and dining (at the lovely Jamavar) plus superior conference facilities. Expect to rub elbows with local resident Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Biocon president and India's richest woman.
