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From: Will Ford
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Subject Aug 22nd tidbits & quotes
Columbian actress Sofia Vergara is actually a natural blonde but she's asked to dye her hair brown
to look more Latina.
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do something like this and
totally redeem yourself!" - Harry Dunne, Dumb & Dumber
"You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club." - Jack London
• Amazing Google Facts and Figures - The original nickname was BackRub due to the
backlit* technology used to determine site importance but eventually changed the name to
Googlc originating from the misspelling of the word "Googol" (the mathematician's term
for the number one followed by one hundred zeros) to signify the large quantities of
information for people that it would provide.
• Google began as a research project in 1996
• Google.com domain went online in 1997
• The first funding of 5100,000 for Google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-
founder of Sun Microsystems
• The CEO for `Excite' George Bell rejected buying Google when it was offered to
him for $1 million when Brin and Page were finding the search engine took up too
much time from their research in 1999.
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