Every day, 16% of the
searches that occur are ones that Google has never seen before.
Google was originally called
“Back rub".
In 1999, the founders of Google
actually tried to sell it to Excite for just US$1 million.
Excite turned them down.
Google has found GPA's
and test scores to be "worthless as criteria for hiring"; they have
teams where 14% of their employees haven't gone to college.
If you search for “askew"
in Google, the content will tilt slightly to the right.
The first Google Doodle was
dedicated to the Burning Man festival attended by Google founders in 1998.
When a Google employee
dies, their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10
years and their children US$1,000 per month until they turn 19.
Google intends to scan all
known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.
Google hired a camel to
create the Street View of a desert.
Microsoft pays you to use
Bing instead of Google.
The "I'm feeling lucky
“button costs Google US$110 million per year, as it bypasses all ads.
Google earns US$20 billion a
year from advertising, more than the prime time revenues of CBS,
NBC, ABC, and FOX combined.
Every minute, 2 million searches
are performed on Google.
Because Gmail first
launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April
Fools' Day prank.
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