1. “goo.gl” is the URL Shortening service created
by Google; “t.co” is the URL shortening service created by which company?
Answer: Twitter (It is
sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet.")
2. Blackcomb, Vienna, Loghorn, Mojave, Whistler,
Memphis. What are we talking about?
Answer: Codenames of Different
Windows OS (Those were the codenames given to different Operating Systems
during their development stage.
a.
Blackcomb, Vienna – Windows 7
b.
Loghorn, Mojave – Windows Vista
c.
Whistler – Windows XP
d.
Memphis – Windows 98
3. What is the Google headquarters called?
Answer: Googleplex (reference
to googolplex, the name given to the large number 10^10^100)
4. Which company’s logo do you see below?
Answer: Alienware (It is an
American computer hardware subsidiary of Dell, Inc.)
5.
Identify the person below.
Answer: Suneet Singh Tuli (CEO, Datawind, the company manufacturing the
“Aakash” Tablets for India)
DID YOU KNOW?
Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally nicknamed their search engine "BackRub", because the system checked back-links to estimate the importance of a site. Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol" where googol means the digit 1 followed by 100 zeros.
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