Craig Silverstein was the first employee hired by Google. At present, there are over 114,096 employees working at Google.
By the end of the year, Google had an index of about 60 million pages.
BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux. The primary database is kept on a Sun Ultra II with 28GB of disk. Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg have provided a great deal of very talented implementation help. Sergey Brin has also been very involved and deserves many thanks. – Larry Page
Google’s first Doodle – Burning Man
The Burning Man was the first Google Doodle was designed by the co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The Duo created the doodle to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed.