To: ni I 4 i i nt : Bcc: From: Will Ford Sent Thur 8122/2013 10:57:37 AM 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. EFTA_R1_00772218 EFTA02129843