11 Crazy-Interesting Facts About Google
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- Google takes over 200 factors into account before delivering you the best results to any query in a fraction of a second.
- 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 …
- There are more than 2 million Google searches per second.
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin made the first Google Doodle in August 1998. They were heading to Burning Man in the Nevada desert and wanted people to know where the Google crew would be for a few days, so they added the festival’s logo.
- Google takes on moonshots projects that could change the world for millions of people. However, it also takes on important projects that matter only to a small number of people: In 2012, Google introduced the Cherokee language in Gmail.
- In 2013, about 91% of Google’s $55.5 billion in revenue came from advertising alone.
- 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.
- Google might be the only company with the explicit goal to REDUCE the amount of time people spend on its site.
- Google has photographed more than five million miles of road for its Street View maps.
- Google has acquired 24 companies this year alone — that’s about three companies a month.
- Over six billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube — that’s almost an hour for every person on Earth.
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