Top Interesting Facts about Google you don’t know

The Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware (Source: Wikipedia). Nowadays usage of Google means very common. We can say that Google know everything about our internet activities. But how much we know about Google. So, here are some interesting facts about Google : 

1) The word “Google” is a play on the word “googol”. (1 googol = 1.0 X 100¹⁰⁰).

2) Google was originally named BackRub.

3) Google has averaged a new company acquisition each week since 2010.

4) Larry Page and Sergey Brin met by chance.

5) Over 1 billion search requests every day are handled by Google. This is done by using more than 1 million computers.

6) It is estimated that Google processes around 20 petabytes or 20,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information daily.

7) Alphabet Inc. is Google’s parent company.

8) The company’s unofficial motto is, “Don’t be evil.”

9) The “I’m feeling lucky” button remains one of the least popular Google features.

10) Google rents 200 goats to help cut down weeds and bushes at Google HQ.

11) Google.com is also the most visited website in the world, with 3.8 million searches per minute, 228 million searches per hour, and 5.6 billion searches per day.

12) Until March 2001, the Google homepage was aligned on the right side of the page instead of centre.

13) Google launched its free browser in 2008, and since then there have been have been more than 2 billion installs.

14) Google has an index with more than 3 billion websites. When this index would be printed, you’d get a 130 miles high stack of paper.

15) Google domain was sold off by mistake. A guy bought “Google.com” domain for just $12 in 2015 when Google mistakenly put its own domain name on sale. After that, Google took the domain back and awarded the buyer about $6006.13.

16) Google has an open-dog policy across its satellites across the world. Dogs who join their humans at work are known as “Dooglers”. The company’s dog-friendly policy extends to all of its 70 offices in countries including Belgium, Denmark, Israel, Russia and Brazil.

17) Gmail was launched on the April fool’s Day, many people thought it was an April Fools’ Day prank.

18) Google’s first office was a rented garage.

19) Google has had a pet-friendly office since the beginning.

20) Many Google employees became instant millionaires when Google went public in 2014.

21) In 1999, the chew candy called “Swedish Fish” became the first company snack to be ordered into the Google office.

22) Google re-CAPTCHA was introduces to teach computers how to read the text. With 200,000 million CAPTCHAs solved each day, Google’s computers learn how to identify words scanned from books even if they’re warped.

23) Google has averaged a new company acquisition each week since 2010.

24) Headquarters is full of odd decorations, such as a T-Rex named Stan, a space ship, pink flamingos, a Lego figure, adult-sized ball pits, Android statues, and phone boxes painted in Google colors.

25) One of the early versions of Google could process 30-50 pages per second. Now Google can process millions of pages per second.

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