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Happy Birthday Google – An Ode From Digpu

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Google has definitely become the most loved platform. With Google, one can find any needle in any haystack, it has changed the virtual world completely. What is that one word that comes in the mind of billions of people when asked to search something, check the news, find a route and check any information – Google. Google has become a household name, a guide to everyone. It is an encyclopedia readily available on the smartphones or desktops. Google began as a research project in 1996 and since then there is no looking back. 21 years ago, two Stanford PhD students, Sergey Brin and Lawrence (Larry) Page, published a paper about launching a prototype of a “large-scale search engine.” Google indexes billions of web pages to allow users to search for the information they desire. Today, Google operates all over the world in over 100 languages, answering trillions of search queries each year. Not just information, it has multi-faceted impacts on our lives.  It has answ...

Google Doodle Celebrates Omar Khayyam On 971th Birth Anniversary

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Google Doodle Celebrates Omar Khayyam,  The Prolific Mathematician, Poet, Philosopher And Astronomer From Persia In India, Russia, the Middle East, North African nations, the US and Chile. Born on May 18, 1048, in northeastern Iran’s Nishapur, Omar Khayyam is notable for several mathematical and scientific discoveries.  He spent most of his life near the court of the  Karakhanid  and  Seljuq  rulers in the period which witnessed the  First Crusade . He was the first to create a general method for solving cubic equations, where he provided geometric solutions by the intersection of conics. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Omar Khayyam was famous for his poetry and verses. He wrote more than a thousand ‘Rubaiyat’ or verses. ‘Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’, a section of work translated by Edward Fitzgerald, became popular in the West centuries after his death. His poems made him extremely famous, unfortunately posthumously. Omar was famous d...