oogle was originally called “Backrub”.
2. When a Google employee dies, their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children US$ 1000 per month until they turn 19.
3. Google intends to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.
4. Every day 16% of the searches that occur are ones that Google has never seen before.
5. Google hired a camel to create the street view of a desert.
6. Microsoft pays you to use Bing instead of Google.
7. The “I’m Feeling Lucky” button costs Google US$ 110 million per year, as it bypasses all ads.
8. Every minute, 2 million searches are performed on Google.
9. Because Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April fool’s day prank.
10. On April fool’s day of 2007, Google sent an Email out to its employees warning that a python was loose in the facilities. It was not a joke.
11. Google first tweet ever was “I’m Feeling Lucky” written in binary code.
12. Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled “Googol”, which refers to the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
13. Google prefers dogs to cats. Their official code of conduct specifically states that they are a dog company.
14. On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global internet traffic dropped by 40%.
15. The first Google doodle was dedicated to the “Burning man festival” attended by Google founders in 1998.
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