Facts about Google....

According to its website, Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and “make it universally accessible and useful"

#1

The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

#2

Google has photographed 5 million miles of road for its Street View maps.

#3

Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.

#4

Google uses over 1 million computers for is operation and handles over 1 billion search requests—per day.

#5

Google uses goats to eat brush and reduce fire hazard in fields near their California Mountain View headquarters.

#6

Originally meant to be called "Googol," investors spelled it "Google" on a check and it stuck.

#7

Google's search index is more 100 million gigabytes in size. It would take 100,000 one-terabyte personal drives to contain the same amount of data

#8

In 2011, 96% of Google's $37.9 billion revenue came from advertising alone.

#9

In October 2011, Google Earth reached its 1 billion download mark.

#10

When Google introduced its “Did you mean . . .?” feature, site traffic doubled.

#11

The world watches 450,000 years of YouTube videos each month, over twice as long as modern humans have existed.

#12

On average, Google has acquired more than one company every week since 2010.

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