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Top 60 most Interesting and funny facts about Google. 

What is Google? 

Google is an American company that is most commonly known as a search engine, Google started development in 1996 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as a research project at Stanford University to find files on the Internet. Google is the No.1 search engine in the world. Google's other enterprises include Internet analytics, cloud computing, advertising technologies, and Web app, browser and operating system development.The company is currently based out of Mountain View, California.

Top 60 most Interesting and funny facts about Google. 

1) The name 'Google' is actually derived from the mathematical term 'googol' which is basically 1 with a 100 zeros.

2) 56% of the internet users Google about themselves.

3) Google is internet’s most visited website according to Alexa.

4) Google uses a web tool called foo.bar to recruit new employees based on what they search for online. 

5) The first ever Google Doodle was a Burning Man stick figure that came out on August 30, 1998.

6) Larry and Sergey's private planes have runways in NASA, where no other planes are allowed to land.

7) Google owns common misspellings of its own name as well, such as www.gooogle.com, www.gogle.com, and www.googlr.com.

8) Google helps pronounce massive numbers if you type '=english' after searching for a number.

9) There's a rotated version of Google known as 'Google Mirror', which shows everything in a mirrored avatar.

10) Google wanted to sell itself to online company Excite in 1999 for $1 million, but the Excite CEO rejected the offer.


11) Larry Page’s web page at Stanford was the first link indexed by Google.

12) Sun Microsystems co-founder, Andy Bechtolsheim, was the first investor of Google, who initially invested $100k in Google during August 1998.

13) Google launched its first homepage in 1998 with an exclamation mark like that of “Yahoo!” after a year of registering its domain name “google.com”.

14) Google’s team of designers and illustrators have produced more than 2000 doodles for Google’s homepage since its first launch in August 1998.

15) Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally named Google 'Backrub'

16) Ad business forms the major contributor to the revenue of Google and even Alphabet, reaching to 84 percent of the Alphabet’s income in 2017.

17) Alphabet spent around $21.4 billion USD on R&D (Research and Development) activities during the year of 2018, making it rank second to Amazon.

18) The new employees at Google are known as “Nooglers”, short for “New Googlers”.

19) The word “google” acquired a place in the Oxford Dictionaries English as a verb, meaning “Search for information about (someone or something) on the Internet using the search engine Google“.

20) Google’s first office space was a rented garage in Menlo Park, California.

21) Google has more than 70 offices spanning across 50 countries.

22) 100 to 250 of Gbikes go missing from the campus every week. These are the multi-colored bicycles meant for the use of employees at Google.

23) Google Translate, the language translation tool from Google, supports over 100 languages — more than any other tool.

24) Google's reCAPTCHA helps their computers learn how to read text, the computers are able to identify words scanned from books, even if they are warped.    

25) Gmail was launched on April Fool’s Day(April 1, 2004,), no joke.

26) Google gave Mountain View the gift of free Wi-Fi.

27) Since 2010, Google has been acquiring an average of one company every week.

28) Google became the world’s largest search engine in June 2000.

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29) 99% of Google profit comes from its advertising.

30) GOOGLE’S GLOBAL REVENUE IN 2018 = 136bn USD

31) Advertising revenue of Google in 2018 = 116.3bn USD

32) Google has a market value of $754.65 billion USD.

33) Google’s first tweet was “I’m Feeling Lucky” in the binary code, which is the two-symbol (0 and 1) data representation system used in computers.

34) Google surpassed one billion unique visitors in May 2011.

35) Keyhoke, Inc. is the company which developed a product called Earth viewer which gave a 3-D view of the Earth. Google acquired it and renamed it as Google Earth on 2005.

36) Did you know that Google has the ability to analyze and track a persons online behavior and Google inform its advertisers the sites they visited and the ads they clicked.

37) in August 16, 2013, some core Google services went down for 5 minutes which lead to a drop of 40% of worldwide internet traffic.

38) ”Don’t be evil” is the unofficial slogan of Google.

39) Google Processes around 20+ petabytes of information daily.

40) Google pays Mozilla Millions of dollars a year as Firefox web browser uses Google as the default search provider.

41) Google site traffic is doubled, when Google introduced its “Did you mean?”.

42) Did you know that Google logo was not centered until 2001.

43) Google released it first android phone on January 5,2010, with the name Nexus One.

44) YouTube, Blogger, DoubleClick, AdMob, Nest Labs, Virus Total are some of the subsidiaries for Google.

45) Larry Page and Sergey Brin together own 16 percent of its shares, who founded Google while they were Ph.D. Students at Stanford University on September 4, 1998.

46) The first April fools joke was in 2000 when Google announced it’s mind reading ability searches called "Mentalplex". 

47) The Google street view has about 28 million miles of photographed roads. 

48) Lerry pages brother was a co-founder of eGroups, a dot-com company that yahoo bought for about $500 million in 2000. 

49) Google purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in 2011, whereas it sold it for $2.91 billion in 2014.

50) Google was first stored on ten 4GB hard drives totaling to 40GB in a Lego cased using now showcased by Stanford University, the index now has over 100 million G.B of data. 

51) Google is used by 57% american kids as their first word.

52) one of the early version of Google could process 30-50 pages per second, now Google can process million of pages per second. 

53) Google handles over 5.6 billion searches requests per day.

54) An average person conducts 3–4 searches every single day.

55) 15% of all searches have never been searched before on Google.

56) Top YouTuber based on annual earnings : Ryan ToysReview = $22m

57) Most monthly YouTube channel views as of June 2019: T-Series = 2.84bn.

58) NUMBER OF FULL-TIME ALPHABET EMPLOYEES = 98,771

59) Number of full - time Alphabet (Google) employees from 2008 to 2018 

2018   =  98,771
2017   =  88,110
2016   =  72,053
2015   =  61,814
2014   =  53,600
2013   =  47,756
2012   =  53,861
2011   =  32,467
2010   =  24,400
2009   =  19,836
2008   =  20,222

60) Google's ad revenue from 2008 to 2018 in billion USD
2018 = 116.32 billion US dollars 
2017 = 95.38 billion US dollars 
2016 = 79.38 billion US dollars 
2015 = 67.39 billion US dollars 
2014 = 59.62 billion US dollars 
2013 = 51.07 billion US dollars 
2012 = 43.69 billion US dollars 
2011 = 36.53 billion US dollars 
2010 = 28.24 billion US dollars 
2009 = 22.89 billion US dollars 
2008 = 21.13 billion US dollars 

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