1. Nobody knows when its birthday is

1. 沒(méi)有人知道谷歌何時(shí)誕生的

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.

2024年9月27日，谷歌首頁(yè)的涂鴉變成了“谷歌的生日是哪天”（如上圖所示），但這個(gè)問(wèn)題其實(shí)是沒(méi)有答案的。迄今已知谷歌至少有6個(gè)生日。今年，谷歌決定從9月27日就開(kāi)始慶祝生日。

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

2. 谷歌正在成為搜索術(shù)語(yǔ)：對(duì)此谷歌表示不是很開(kāi)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.

谷歌擔(dān)心：經(jīng)常使用“谷歌一下”這個(gè)短語(yǔ)，人們會(huì)形成一種思維定式。這會(huì)逐漸瓦解公司對(duì)谷歌品牌認(rèn)知所做出的努力。

3. The first ever Google storage was made of Lego

3. 第一個(gè)谷歌倉(cāng)庫(kù)是樂(lè)高積木做成的

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.

谷歌現(xiàn)今已是世界上最大的數(shù)據(jù)存儲(chǔ)公司之一：一倉(cāng)庫(kù)挨著一倉(cāng)庫(kù)的服務(wù)器事無(wú)巨細(xì)地儲(chǔ)存著人們的工作、照片、郵件和其他信息。但在谷歌建廠伊始，當(dāng)它還只是“Backrub”(斯坦福大學(xué)一個(gè)小研究項(xiàng)目)的時(shí)候，谷歌的首批數(shù)據(jù)存儲(chǔ)僅僅由硬盤驅(qū)動(dòng)器負(fù)載，而這些驅(qū)動(dòng)器則安放在樂(lè)高積木做成的集裝箱里。

4. Google gives very generous payouts to the husbands and wives of people who die while working for them

4. 谷歌支付大筆的撫恤金給因公殉職的員工的家屬

They’ll receive 50 per cent of their salary for the next decade. And their children receive a payout until they’re grown up, too.

因公殉職的員工的家屬會(huì)拿到相當(dāng)于接下來(lái)十年薪水的50%數(shù)目的撫恤金。他們的孩子也會(huì)收到一大筆錢，足夠他們長(zhǎng)大成人。

5. One Google search uses more computing power than it took to send the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon

5. 一個(gè)谷歌搜索使用的計(jì)算機(jī)運(yùn)算能力甚至超過(guò)運(yùn)送阿波羅11號(hào)宇航員登月

Searching Google is easy and takes just miliseconds. But the computing and networking power required to look through almost all of the known internet is huge – far more huge than the relatively minor amount of code and computing that it took to put humans on the moon.

使用谷歌搜索非常簡(jiǎn)單，幾毫秒就能搞定。但是短短的幾毫秒內(nèi)，查找所有已知的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)所需的運(yùn)算能力和聯(lián)網(wǎng)能力是強(qiáng)悍的——強(qiáng)悍到什么程度呢？人類登月所用的計(jì)算機(jī)編碼和運(yùn)算能力跟其相比是小巫見(jiàn)大巫。

6. Google once went down for five minutes, and took 40 per cent of web traffic with it

6. 谷歌曾經(jīng)宕機(jī)5分鐘，全球網(wǎng)絡(luò)流量暴跌40%

On 19 August, 2024, Google stopped working for five minutes. And it took much of the internet with it.Now THAT'S power.

2024年8月19日，谷歌癱瘓了5分鐘。很多網(wǎng)站流量暴跌。這就是谷歌的強(qiáng)大影響力！

While other companies have looked to challenge Google’s dominance in search, it still represents a huge part of the web.

盡管有其他公司一直想要挑戰(zhàn)谷歌在搜索引擎屆的老大哥地位，谷歌至今仍然屹立不倒。

7. Google hires goats

7. 谷歌雇傭“山羊”工作

Google’s headquarters are big, and lots of it is green. So much of it is grass that it would need a lot of lawnmowers – but Google has a novel way around that.

谷歌的總部占地面積很大，綠化得也很好。大部分是綠植草坪，這就需要很多割草機(jī)。但是谷歌在這件事情上別出心裁。

Instead of gas-powered machines, Google hires a load of goats to clear the fields around its campus.

谷歌“雇傭”了一大群山羊來(lái)清理大學(xué)校區(qū)四周的草坪。山羊！而不是燒油的機(jī)器！

They visit for about a week at a time, and about 200 of them come to much up the Google grass.

這些山羊一周打一次卡就行，每次大概有200只山羊來(lái)清理谷歌的草坪。

The goats don’t guzzle gas, pollute the air or make as much noise. And they have the advantage of being “a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers”, Google’s employees have noted.

山羊既不會(huì)大量消耗汽油，也不會(huì)污染空氣，更沒(méi)有噪音。最重要的是，它們的優(yōu)點(diǎn)如谷歌員工所說(shuō)“可觀賞性比割草機(jī)可愛(ài)得多”。

8. And there are lots of dogs at Google too

8. 谷歌公司還有很多汪星人

Google’s office is very dog friendly. It says that letting people bring in their pups makes employees a lot happier.

谷歌的辦公室是允許員工帶汪星人上班的。谷歌官方說(shuō)這樣做員工的心情會(huì)很不錯(cuò)。

Cats aren’t as encouraged – simply because they tend to be upset by the dogs. They’re not banned.

不過(guò)，在谷歌，喵星人就不像汪星人那么走運(yùn)了。主要是因?yàn)楣犯堅(jiān)谝黄鹂偸谴蚣堋２贿^(guò)谷歌并沒(méi)有明令禁貓。

9. Google’s logo wasn’t in the middle until 2001

9. 谷歌的logo直到2001年才放在網(wǎng)頁(yè)正中間

The simplicity of the Google homepage belies the fact that it is one of the most viewed things in the history of the world. So even the tiniest changes are significant – and some very not tiny changes were made in the site’s early development.

盡管谷歌是世界歷史上被訪問(wèn)最多的網(wǎng)頁(yè)之一，但谷歌的首頁(yè)一向以簡(jiǎn)潔著稱。即使是最細(xì)微的變化，在谷歌首頁(yè)都會(huì)非常明顯。當(dāng)然在網(wǎng)站建立初期也有過(guò)一些調(diào)整。

For instance, in the first few years the site was around, its logo was aligned slightly to the left. That came to an end in 2001, when Google finally moved it into the middle.

比如，網(wǎng)站剛成立的那幾年，谷歌的logo是稍微向左對(duì)齊的。2001年的時(shí)候，谷歌把logo挪到了網(wǎng)頁(yè)正中間。

1. Nobody knows when its birthday is

1. 沒(méi)有人知道谷歌何時(shí)誕生的

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.

2024年9月27日，谷歌首頁(yè)的涂鴉變成了“谷歌的生日是哪天”（如上圖所示），但這個(gè)問(wèn)題其實(shí)是沒(méi)有答案的。迄今已知谷歌至少有6個(gè)生日。今年，谷歌決定從9月27日就開(kāi)始慶祝生日。

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

2. 谷歌正在成為搜索術(shù)語(yǔ)：對(duì)此谷歌表示不是很開(kāi)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.

谷歌擔(dān)心：經(jīng)常使用“谷歌一下”這個(gè)短語(yǔ)，人們會(huì)形成一種思維定式。這會(huì)逐漸瓦解公司對(duì)谷歌品牌認(rèn)知所做出的努力。

3. The first ever Google storage was made of Lego

3. 第一個(gè)谷歌倉(cāng)庫(kù)是樂(lè)高積木做成的

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.

谷歌現(xiàn)今已是世界上最大的數(shù)據(jù)存儲(chǔ)公司之一：一倉(cāng)庫(kù)挨著一倉(cāng)庫(kù)的服務(wù)器事無(wú)巨細(xì)地儲(chǔ)存著人們的工作、照片、郵件和其他信息。但在谷歌建廠伊始，當(dāng)它還只是“Backrub”(斯坦福大學(xué)一個(gè)小研究項(xiàng)目)的時(shí)候，谷歌的首批數(shù)據(jù)存儲(chǔ)僅僅由硬盤驅(qū)動(dòng)器負(fù)載，而這些驅(qū)動(dòng)器則安放在樂(lè)高積木做成的集裝箱里。

4. Google gives very generous payouts to the husbands and wives of people who die while working for them

4. 谷歌支付大筆的撫恤金給因公殉職的員工的家屬

They’ll receive 50 per cent of their salary for the next decade. And their children receive a payout until they’re grown up, too.

因公殉職的員工的家屬會(huì)拿到相當(dāng)于接下來(lái)十年薪水的50%數(shù)目的撫恤金。他們的孩子也會(huì)收到一大筆錢，足夠他們長(zhǎng)大成人。

5. One Google search uses more computing power than it took to send the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon

5. 一個(gè)谷歌搜索使用的計(jì)算機(jī)運(yùn)算能力甚至超過(guò)運(yùn)送阿波羅11號(hào)宇航員登月

Searching Google is easy and takes just miliseconds. But the computing and networking power required to look through almost all of the known internet is huge – far more huge than the relatively minor amount of code and computing that it took to put humans on the moon.

使用谷歌搜索非常簡(jiǎn)單，幾毫秒就能搞定。但是短短的幾毫秒內(nèi)，查找所有已知的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)所需的運(yùn)算能力和聯(lián)網(wǎng)能力是強(qiáng)悍的——強(qiáng)悍到什么程度呢？人類登月所用的計(jì)算機(jī)編碼和運(yùn)算能力跟其相比是小巫見(jiàn)大巫。

6. Google once went down for five minutes, and took 40 per cent of web traffic with it

6. 谷歌曾經(jīng)宕機(jī)5分鐘，全球網(wǎng)絡(luò)流量暴跌40%

On 19 August, 2024, Google stopped working for five minutes. And it took much of the internet with it.Now THAT'S power.

2024年8月19日，谷歌癱瘓了5分鐘。很多網(wǎng)站流量暴跌。這就是谷歌的強(qiáng)大影響力！

While other companies have looked to challenge Google’s dominance in search, it still represents a huge part of the web.

盡管有其他公司一直想要挑戰(zhàn)谷歌在搜索引擎屆的老大哥地位，谷歌至今仍然屹立不倒。

7. Google hires goats

7. 谷歌雇傭“山羊”工作

Google’s headquarters are big, and lots of it is green. So much of it is grass that it would need a lot of lawnmowers – but Google has a novel way around that.

谷歌的總部占地面積很大，綠化得也很好。大部分是綠植草坪，這就需要很多割草機(jī)。但是谷歌在這件事情上別出心裁。

Instead of gas-powered machines, Google hires a load of goats to clear the fields around its campus.

谷歌“雇傭”了一大群山羊來(lái)清理大學(xué)校區(qū)四周的草坪。山羊！而不是燒油的機(jī)器！

They visit for about a week at a time, and about 200 of them come to much up the Google grass.

這些山羊一周打一次卡就行，每次大概有200只山羊來(lái)清理谷歌的草坪。

The goats don’t guzzle gas, pollute the air or make as much noise. And they have the advantage of being “a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers”, Google’s employees have noted.

山羊既不會(huì)大量消耗汽油，也不會(huì)污染空氣，更沒(méi)有噪音。最重要的是，它們的優(yōu)點(diǎn)如谷歌員工所說(shuō)“可觀賞性比割草機(jī)可愛(ài)得多”。

8. And there are lots of dogs at Google too

8. 谷歌公司還有很多汪星人

Google’s office is very dog friendly. It says that letting people bring in their pups makes employees a lot happier.

谷歌的辦公室是允許員工帶汪星人上班的。谷歌官方說(shuō)這樣做員工的心情會(huì)很不錯(cuò)。

Cats aren’t as encouraged – simply because they tend to be upset by the dogs. They’re not banned.

不過(guò)，在谷歌，喵星人就不像汪星人那么走運(yùn)了。主要是因?yàn)楣犯堅(jiān)谝黄鹂偸谴蚣堋２贿^(guò)谷歌并沒(méi)有明令禁貓。

9. Google’s logo wasn’t in the middle until 2001

9. 谷歌的logo直到2001年才放在網(wǎng)頁(yè)正中間

The simplicity of the Google homepage belies the fact that it is one of the most viewed things in the history of the world. So even the tiniest changes are significant – and some very not tiny changes were made in the site’s early development.

盡管谷歌是世界歷史上被訪問(wèn)最多的網(wǎng)頁(yè)之一，但谷歌的首頁(yè)一向以簡(jiǎn)潔著稱。即使是最細(xì)微的變化，在谷歌首頁(yè)都會(huì)非常明顯。當(dāng)然在網(wǎng)站建立初期也有過(guò)一些調(diào)整。

For instance, in the first few years the site was around, its logo was aligned slightly to the left. That came to an end in 2001, when Google finally moved it into the middle.

比如，網(wǎng)站剛成立的那幾年，谷歌的logo是稍微向左對(duì)齊的。2001年的時(shí)候，谷歌把logo挪到了網(wǎng)頁(yè)正中間。