谷歌生日？9件關於Google你不知道的事情

1. Nobody knows when its birthday is
1. 沒有人知道谷歌何時誕生的

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.
2016年9月27日，谷歌首頁的塗鴉變成了“谷歌的生日是哪天”（如上圖所示），但這個問題其實是沒有答案的。迄今已知谷歌至少有6個生日。今年，谷歌決定從9月27日就開始慶祝生日。

2. Google wasn’t very happy with becoming a generic word for searching
2. 谷歌正在成爲搜索術語：對此谷歌表示不是很開心

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.
谷歌擔心：經常使用“谷歌一下”這個短語，人們會形成一種思維定式。這會逐漸瓦解公司對谷歌品牌認知所做出的努力。

3. The first ever Google storage was made of Lego
3. 第一個谷歌倉庫是樂高積木做成的

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.
谷歌現今已是世界上最大的數據存儲公司之一：一倉庫挨着一倉庫的服務器事無鉅細地儲存着人們的工作、照片、郵件和其他信息。但在谷歌建廠伊始，當它還只是“Backrub”(斯坦福大學一個小研究項目)的時候，谷歌的首批數據存儲僅僅由硬盤驅動器負載，而這些驅動器則安放在樂高積木做成的集裝箱裏。

4. Google gives very generous payouts to the husbands and wives of people who die while working for them
4. 谷歌支付大筆的撫卹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拿到相當於接下來十年薪水的50%數目的撫卹金。他們的孩子也會收到一大筆錢，足夠他們長大成人。

5. One Google search uses more computing power than it took to send the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon
5. 一個谷歌搜索使用的計算機運算能力甚至超過運送阿波羅11號宇航員登月

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單，幾毫秒就能搞定。但是短短的幾毫秒內，查找所有已知的互聯網所需的運算能力和聯網能力是強悍的——強悍到什麼程度呢？人類登月所用的計算機編碼和運算能力跟其相比是小巫見大巫。

6. Google once went down for five minutes, and took 40 per cent of web traffic with it
6. 谷歌曾經宕機5分鐘，全球網絡流量暴跌40%

On 19 August, 2013, Google stopped working for five minutes. And it took much of the internet with THAT'S power.
2013年8月19日，谷歌癱瘓了5分鐘。很多網站流量暴跌。這就是谷歌的強大影響力！

While other companies have looked to challenge Google’s dominance in search, it still represents a huge part of the web.
儘管有其他公司一直想要挑戰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. 谷歌僱傭“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.
谷歌的總部佔地面積很大，綠化得也很好。大部分是綠植草坪，這就需要很多割草機。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“僱傭”了一大羣山羊來清理大學校區四周的草坪。山羊！而不是燒油的機器！

They visit for about a week at a time, and about 200 of them come to much up the Google grass.
這些山羊一週打一次卡就行，每次大概有200只山羊來清理谷歌的草坪。

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.
山羊既不會大量消耗汽油，也不會污染空氣，更沒有噪音。最重要的是，它們的優點如谷歌員工所說“可觀賞性比割草機可愛得多”。

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。谷歌官方說這樣做員工的心情會很不錯。

Cats aren’t as encouraged – simply because they tend to be upset by the dogs. They’re not banned.
不過，在谷歌，喵星人就不像汪星人那麼走運了。主要是因爲狗跟貓在一起總是打架。不過谷歌並沒有明令禁貓。

9. Google’s logo wasn’t in the middle until 2001
9. 谷歌的logo直到2001年才放在網頁正中間

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.
儘管谷歌是世界歷史上被訪問最多的網頁之一，但谷歌的首頁一向以簡潔著稱。即使是最細微的變化，在谷歌首頁都會非常明顯。當然在網站建立初期也有過一些調整。

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，網站剛成立的那幾年，谷歌的logo是稍微向左對齊的。2001年的時候，谷歌把logo挪到了網頁正中間。