20 interesting facts about Google

Google which was Originally known as BackRub, was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in a friend’s garage while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. It has since grown to become the world’s biggest search engine, and the name Google has become synonymous with search.

1. 20 Interesting Facts About
Google
Presented by
Rohit Sharma
Digital Marketing Consultant
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2. Google which was Originally known as BackRub, was
founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in a friend’s
garage while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford
University. It has since grown to become the world’s
biggest search engine, and the name Google has
become synonymous with search.
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3. Google was named due to the misspelling
of the word googol.
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4. Google encourages its employees to spend at least 20%
of their time developing an independent idea which
gave rise to some of Google’s biggest projects including
AdSense, Gmail, Google Transit, Google News and
Google Talk Some of them are so interesting that
Google takes them up officially resulting in so many
beta products.
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5. Google takes over 200 factors into account
before delivering you the best results to any
query in a fraction of a second.
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6. Google indexes 60 trillion individual web pages
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7. Google’s search index is more than 100
million gigabytes in size. It would take
100,000 one-terabyte personal drives to
contain the same amount of data.
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8. The company owns a bunch of domains that are
common misspellings of Google, like
Gooogle.com, Gogle.com, Googlr.com, and
more. Google also owns 466453.com, too …
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9. Google has been acquiring, on average, more
than one company per week since 2010.
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10. Go to Google Mars. You can see a map of
Mars.
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11. Google is a wedding planner. Yes, you heard it
right. Plan your special day with
Google Wedding.
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12. Google Sky Maps allows you to view stars,
constellations, galaxies and planets. Check out
www.google.com/sky.
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13. There are more than 2 million Google
searches per second.
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14. 620 million users visit www.google.com daily.
Does that number stand for half the world’s
population? Maybe not, but it definitely stands
for almost all the people use the Internet.
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15. Over 6 billion who hours of video are watched
each month on YouTube — that’s almost an
hour for every person on Earth.
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16. Up to 97% of Google’s revenue comes from
advertisements
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17. Google written backwards is elgooG, but did you
know you could search backwards too at
http://elgoog.im
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18. YouTube makes money through advertisements
that are placed near the videos. It works like
Google itself. It further earns money through
sponsored competition on the website. Google
paid $1.65 Billion to purchase Youtube on
October 9, 2006, even though they had an in
house product called Google Video.
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19. Google pays Mozilla Millions of dollars a year.
As part of the deal Mozilla makes Google the
default search provider in its Firefox web
browser and some speculate the partnership
also protects Google from antitrust complaints.
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20. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
own just 16% of the company That 16% gives
them a combined net worth of around $46bn.
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21. The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, which bypasses
the results page and takes users directly to the
first result of their search, is nearly never used.
It has been estimated to cost Google around
$100 million in lost advertising revenue every
year.
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22. Thanks
Rohit Sharma
Digital Marketing Consultant
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