谷歌生日？9件关于Google你不知道的事情_公共英语阅读理解

谷歌生日？9件关于Google你不知道的事情

谷歌生日？9件关于Google你不知道的事情1

1. Nobody knows when its birthday is

1. 没有人知道谷歌何时诞生的

The question of today’s Doodle – when is Google’s birthday? – isn’t actually answerable. The company has six birthdays, at least, and has just decided to start celebrating it on 27 September.

2016年9月27日，谷歌首页的涂鸦变成了“谷歌的生日是哪天”（如上图所示），但这个问题其实是没有答案的。迄今已知谷歌至少有6个生日。今年，谷歌决定从9月27日就开始庆祝生日。

2. Google wasn’t very happy with becoming a generic word for searching

2. 谷歌正在成为搜索术语：对此谷歌表示不是很开心

The company worried that the word – as in the phrase, “just Google it” – would undermine all of the work it had done to make its brand recognizable.

谷歌担心：经常使用“谷歌一下”这个短语，人们会形成一种思维定式。这会逐渐瓦解公司对谷歌品牌认知所做出的努力。

3. The first ever Google storage was made of Lego

3. 第一个谷歌仓库是乐高积木做成的

Nowadays, Google is one of the world’s biggest data storage companies – filling warehouse upon warehouse with servers to store people’s work, photos, emails and everything else. But at its very beginning, when it was known just as Backrub, its first storage was just a load of hard drives housed in a container built of Lego.