Test Your Google IQ

There’s one thing that amazes me after the god. That is Google. I got some nice IQ questions regarding google and found some amazing answers. Sharing them with you try it :)

Before directly moving to answer read questions and try to answer them :) No cheating.

1. The name "Google" is derived from the word "googol," which means what?

1. A German variation on nine-pin bowling
2. A mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros
3. A Ukrainian-born novelist and humorist
4. An ice dwelling where Eskimos live

2. How much user-generated data does Google processes each hour?

1. 1 gigabyte
2. 1 petabyte
3. 1 terabyte
4. 1 infinibyte

3. What is Google's corporate motto?

1. All competition must be crushed
2. Don't be evil
3. Property is theft
4. We make money the old-fashioned way --- we earn it

4. Which religious figure received his own channel after Google bought the video website YouTube?

1. Bishop Thomas Muthee
2. Pat Robertson
3. Pope Benedict XVI
4. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

5. In 2006, Google entered into an agreement with Fox Interactive Media for search and advertising on what social networking site?

1. Classmates.com
2. Facebook
3. Friendster
4. MySpace

6. Google acquired a software company called Keyhole, Inc., and renamed their 3D map to what?

1. Google 3D Map
2. Google Atlas
3. Google Earth
4. Google Friend Finder

7. What was the first project undertaken by Google's philanthropy, Google.org?

1. An endowment for Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB)
2. An endowment for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)
3. Development of a plug-in hybrid car
4. Founding the One Laptop Per Child Association, Inc. (OLPC)

8. How much does the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on Google's search page cost the company every year?

1. Nothing
2. Less than $1 million
3. $50 million
4. More than $100 million

9. In August 2005, Google sold 14,159,265 shares of its stock. What is the significance of this number?

1. It's completely random
2. It's a sequence of digits found in the mathematical symbol "pi"
3. It's the population of Michigan, the birthplace of Google co-founder Larry Page
4. It's the population of Moscow, the birthplace of Google co-founder Sergey Brin

10. Which of the following services was actually an April Fool's Day hoax perpetrated by Google?

1. Google Caffeine
2. Google Mail
3. Google Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP)
4. iGoogle

Answers:

1. The name "Google" is derived from the word "googol," which means what?

"Googol" is a number represented by a 1 followed by one hundred zeros, or 10 to the 100th power. The intentionally misspelled name was intended to convey the wealth of information that the search engine is able to access. However, it's taken on a life of its own as a verb, and in 2006 it made its debut in the Oxford English Dictionary, where it's defined as "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet."

2. How much user-generated data does Google processes each hour?

1 petabyte

3. What is Google's corporate motto?

Google's motto is "Don't be evil," which suggests that the company conducts itself using only ethical business practices. According to their investor relations literature, failure to adhere to this motto "can result in disciplinary action, including termination of employment." So be nice.

4. Which religious figure received his own channel after Google bought the video website YouTube?

After Google bought YouTube in November 2006, they entered into an agreement with the Pontifical Council for Social Communications to broadcast addresses to the faithful from Pope Benedict. This partnership put YouTube --- and, by extension, Google --- in front of the eyes of millions of Catholics the world over, so it seemed like a good deal for everybody. Well, almost everybody. Domenico Pompili, a representative of Italy's bishops, expressed unease about the partnership and its implications for the world's Catholics, saying that "the relationship with the Web has grown, but the question remains of how must we behave."

5. In 2006, Google entered into an agreement with Fox Interactive Media for search and advertising on what social networking site?

As of the first quarter of 2007, Google has been providing keyword-targeted advertising and search capabilities for all of Fox's online properties, one of which is MySpace.com. Under the terms of the deal, Google was also integrated into many other sites, including Rottentomatoes.com, AskMen.com and Fileplanet.com, among many others.

6. Google acquired a software company called Keyhole, Inc., and renamed their 3D map to what?

The 2004 purchase of Keyhole, Inc. was a real coup for Google, since the acquisition brought with it a product called EarthViewer 3D, rechristened Google Earth in 2005. Using satellite imagery, Google Earth allows users to search for addresses and coordinates, with results returned in the form of superimposed aerial photographs of rooftops, mountain peaks and everything in between.

7. What was the first project undertaken by Google's philanthropy, Google.org?

Google.org was founded in 2004 with $1 billion dollars and a mission to address such issues as poverty, disease and the environment. To address the issue of climate change, the charity purchased several cars to use as test cases in the development of a plug-in hybrid engine. The goal is for this engine to run on a mixture of electricity, ethanol and gasoline, and get gas mileage exceeding 100 miles per gallon.

8. How much does the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on Google's search page cost the company every year?

Lucky" button takes Google users directly to the top search result, bypassing the search results page. While only one 1% of all searches actually use this feature, the price for Google is still pretty steep --- $110 million, to be exact. This is because the user doesn't just miss all the other search results. The user also misses all the advertising. So why does the company bother? According to Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Google's Search Products and User Experience division, "It's possible to become too dry, too corporate, too much about making money. I think what's delightful about 'I'm Feeling Lucky' is that it reminds you there are real people here."

9. In August 2005, Google sold 14,159,265 shares of its stock. What is the significance of this number?

The numerical form of the mathematical symbol "pi" is 3.14159265, and the number of shares that Google offered is the eight-digit sequence that appears after the decimal point. Inside math jokes are actually standard operating procedure for Google; in their initial public offering in August 2004, the company floated 14,142,135 shares, a reference to1.4142135, or the square root of 2.

10. Which of the following services was actually an April Fool's Day hoax perpetrated by Google?

On April 1, 2007, Google announced a new broadband service that utilized sewage lines to transfer information. The user of this amazing new technology would drop a very long fiber-optic cable into their toilet bowl and, an hour after flushing, would have the other end retrieved by a friendly "Plumbing Hardware Dispatcher (PHD)." The user would then plug in the unflushed end of the cable, install the software and be connected to the information superhighway. It is not known how many people actually fell for this, since Google had by this time already established a track record of April Fool's Day hoaxes, and this one may simply have been too absurd to be believed.

What’s NEXT????

Google Wave: Next Big Thing

This is driving me crazy, as the launch date draws nearer, I can’t stop thinking how Google Wave can change the landscape of how we communicate and collaborate online. Much has been promised and we have also seen how some of the cool features can improve the way we work.

I have thought of 10 benefits that we can yield from this highly anticipated platform.

The actual benefits are certainly more than what I am about to list. But till then, this is enough to keep us hyped up.

1. Real time news all in one

To get the latest breaking news, Twitter is arguably the fastest. The only thing that is lacking is solid content and a concerted effort to make the news more informative. With Google Wave, a user such as a witness of the incident can edit, add in his or her comments or share knowledge regarding the news. A journalist’s expertise accompanied by witnesses and users’ opinions will certainly improve real time news quality.

2. Cuts down conversation waiting time

SKYPE, the world’s most popular calling an chat application is good but not great. Often, we have to wait for the other party to type their message even though we know he’s typing something out there and hit enter before we can formulate our thoughts and reply. Fortunately, that’s not the case in Google Wave. Whatever your friend is typing at that moment, you can see it appearing real time and start formulating your thoughts for the next message. It’s like a real verbal conversation with friends.

Great Time saver, really you gonna love this feature.

3. Cool extensions for work and play

To Facebook applications, we can expect quite some Google Wave extensions. These extensions are classified as either robots or gadgets. A robot is an automated participant on a Wave. It can read, edit and share outside content to a Wave. It can also create new Waves, blips and add and remove participants. A gadget is like an application like games and survey forms etc. If you’re having fun with Facebook applications, Google Wave could very well provide the same or higher level of entertainment.

4. Multiple users instant messaging gets easy

It is easy to have multiple friends chatting in a Wave. Simply drag and drop their avatar and they are in the conversation! Most of the time when there are multiple users chatting, it is hard to keep track of who is talking to who exactly. Google Wave helps to organize the conversation in a neat threaded fashion.

5. Easy project collaboration

Collaboration is Google Wave’s specialty. Every Wave works like a wiki or a Google doc. It places everyone’s work into one Wave, real time. This is an extremely useful tool during meetings when everyone can take notes and input their thoughts into a single Wave. At the end of the day, everyone gets the same set of meeting notes, ensuring consistency and avoiding miscommunication.

6. Retrace with playback

You’d probably feel lost when you are new to a Wave your friends just added you into. Don’t be afraid, its playback function helps you understand how the conversation or email has evolved to what it is at the current moment. Putting the playback function in the news context, you can literally see how a breaking news was first reported, commented, updated and concluded.

7. Easy file sharing

File sharing is simple on Google Wave. Just drag and drop the files into the intended Wave (with your Wave members in it) and sharing done!

8. Embedding a Wave to your site

Embedding a Wave into your blog allows you and the other users in the Wave to edit or add new content to it via Google Wave. Changes are as usual real time and comments on your blog posting via Google Wave are automatically updated to your blog.

9. Own a Wave

Just like how companies have their own SMTP email server, companies can also have their own Wave technology. I’m looking forward to have it in my company at least c-sam. :)

Abstract of Google explaination:

…To help potential wave providers get started, our plan is to release an open source, production-quality, reference implementation of the Google Wave client and server, as well as provide an open federation endpoint by the time users start getting access.

That means that you can either use Wave hosted on Google’s infrastructure, or you can have it hosted on your own server, without ever sharing data with Google.

10. Competition drives quality

With the number of benefits Google Wave can bring, as a collaborative and communication platform, it will certainly drive up the quality of what competitors (social sites, cloud computing products and etc) are going to provide in the future.

And guess what, we, as the consumers are the beneficiaries again!

At last I'll leave you guys/gals with the developer presentation that Google had while they introduced this NEXT BIG THING to it’s developer.