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Google is the most visited website<\/strong> on the planet, but you already knew that, right? However, do you know that Google does 65k+ searches every second<\/a>? And it is not the only fascinating fact about Google \u2014 it has many less-known facts and secrets <\/strong>that are hardly widely known. Do you want to know? Dive in.<\/p>\n

I am surprised by the fact that we use Google to search<\/a> a ton of information every day, and yet we know so little about it. That is why, in this post, I am going to share my findings with you. I have arranged this post in sections to help you quickly browse<\/strong> or switch to read your favorite facts.<\/p>\n

Read Also:<\/strong> 20 Cool Things Google Search Can Do<\/a><\/p>\n

Google and its History<\/h2>\n

1. Google\u2019s initial name was \u201cBackRub<\/a><\/strong>\u201c, referring to its underlying algorithm of checking backlinks when its founders began working on their search engine in 1995. They decided to turn its name to \u201cGoogle!\u201d in 1997.<\/p>\n

\"BackRub<\/figure>\n

2. Google acquires its name from the word \u201cgoogol<\/a>\u201c<\/strong> \u2014 a mathematical term representing one followed by 100 zeros. It signifies the search engine\u2019s capacity to offer access to the enormous information over the Internet.<\/p>\n

3. Larry Page\u2019s web page at Stanford<\/a> was the first link indexed<\/a><\/strong> by Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4. Stanford University holds the patent to \u201cPageRank<\/a>\u201c, the algorithm of Google, which is a method to measure the importance of a site. Google handed it over 1.8 million shares of its company<\/strong> to gain the exclusive rights of the patent.<\/p>\n

5. Sun Microsystems co-founder, Andy Bechtolsheim, was the first investor of Google<\/a>, who initially invested $100k in Google<\/strong> during August 1998.<\/p>\n

6. The Original Google Storage, i.e., the first storage of Google, was built of <\/a>10 4GB hard drives cased using Legos<\/a><\/strong>, totaling to 40GB. It was used to store the search engine\u2019s indexed data during the early days of Google.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/figure>\n

7. Google launched its first homepage in 1998 <\/strong>with an exclamation mark like that of \u201cYahoo!\u201d after a year of registering its domain name \u201cgoogle.com\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Google's<\/figure>\n

8. Google\u2019s first doodle<\/a> was a stick figure<\/a><\/strong> drawing placed behind the second \u2018o\u2019 of \u201cGoogle\u201d indicating the \u201cout of office\u201d message on the day of \u201cBurning Man Festival\u201d. It was published on August 30, 1998, on Google\u2019s homepage.<\/p>\n

\"Google's<\/figure>\n

9. MentalPlex, the mind reading ability to search, was the Google\u2019s first hoax for April Fools\u2019 Day<\/strong>. It invited users to stare at an animated image and asked them to project a mental picture of what they wish to search on Google.<\/p>\n

\"Google's<\/figure>\n

10. Google was declared the <\/a>best search engine<\/a> in June 2000<\/strong>, in a search and portal site tracking research done by NPD, an independent research company.<\/p>\n

11. Yahoo! declined Google\u2019s offer for infusion of cash, and later in 2002, Yahoo! wanted to buy it for $3 billion<\/a>, but this time, Google refused it.<\/p>\n

12. Google\u2019s first tweet was \u201cI\u2019m Feeling Lucky\u201d<\/a><\/strong> in the binary code, which is the two-symbol (0 and 1) data representation system used in computers.<\/p>\n

\"Google's<\/figure>\n

13. PAC-MAN became <\/a>Google\u2019s first ever playable doodle<\/a><\/strong> on May 21, 2010, for the day being the 30th anniversary of the arcade game.<\/p>\n

\"Google's<\/figure>\n

14. Google\u2019s team of designers and illustrators have produced more than 2000 doodles<\/a><\/strong> for Google\u2019s homepage since its first launch in August 1998.<\/p>\n

Google and its Parent<\/h2>\n

15. Alphabet Inc. is the parent company<\/strong> of Google, which was founded in 2015 with the desire to separate its web services business from its other ambitious companies. Its name speaks of \u201calpha\u201d as \u201can investment that returns above the benchmark\u201d, suggesting the company as a great opportunity.<\/p>\n

16. Alphabet Inc. is a public holding company<\/strong> with \u201cabc.xyz<\/a>\u201d as its website. Its founders did not have much of a choice because \u201calphabet.com\u201d was taken, so they ended up with \u201cabc.xyz\u201d. I find it is a good domain name for a company named \u201cAlphabet\u201d as alphabets run from \u201ca, b, c, \u2026\u201d to \u201cx, y, and z\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Alphabet<\/figure>\n

17. The company\u2019s unofficial slogan \u201cDon\u2019t be evil<\/a><\/strong>\u201d was the motto of its code of conduct until 2015, when it was replaced by \u201cDo the right thing<\/strong>\u201d by its parent company Alphabet, but retained as is in Google\u2019s code of conduct.<\/p>\n

\"Don't<\/figure>\n

18. Alphabet along with its subsidiary company, Google, has done as many as 214 acquisitions since 2001 up to 2017<\/a>, averaging to a company a month<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

19. Alphabet holds various subsidiary companies<\/strong> including Nest Labs, AdMob, DoubleClick, Kaggle, Crashlytics, Dropcam, Xively, and many more.<\/p>\n

20. Alphabet leads Amazon to be the world\u2019s <\/a>largest Internet company<\/a><\/strong> by the company\u2019s market capitalization (as of February 2018).<\/p>\n

21. The market value of Alphabet\u2019s share has seen a significant rise from near to $50 to greater than $1000<\/a><\/strong> (in 2018) since August 2004.<\/p>\n

\"Alphabet<\/figure>\n

22. The total revenue of Alphabet crossed $100 billion<\/strong> ($110 billion<\/a>) in 2017 \u2014 the first time in the company\u2019s history of 20 years.<\/p>\n

23. Ad business forms the major contributor<\/strong> to the revenue of Google and even Alphabet, reaching to 84 percent of<\/a> the<\/a> Alphabet\u2019s income<\/a> in 2017.<\/p>\n

24. Alphabet spent around $13.9 billion on R&D<\/a><\/strong> (Research and Development) activities during the year of 2017, making it rank second to Amazon.<\/p>\n

25. Google ranked #1 place to work<\/strong> for six consecutive years from 2012 to 2017 (as well as in 2007 and 2008), meaning eight times in 11 years on the Fortune\u2019s Best Companies to Work For<\/a> since 2007 up until 2017.<\/p>\n

26. foo.bar is a secret hiring tool<\/strong> that Google uses to recruit developers and programmers with superb coding skills. The tool presents itself as a game to its users, asking them to solve coding challenges of growing difficulty.<\/p>\n

\"foo.bar<\/figure>\n

27. The new employees at Google are known as \u201cNooglers\u201d, short for \u201cNew Googlers\u201d<\/strong>. They are easily recognizable, thanks to their multi-colored hats.<\/p>\n

\"Nooglers<\/figure>\n

28. Google encourages its employees to work on their side projects<\/strong> \u2014 as much as 20% of their time<\/strong>. I cannot say, but it was worth the risk \u2014 AdSense, Google News, Gmail, and even Orkut are the results of this policy.<\/p>\n

Google and its Empire<\/h2>\n

29. Google along with its many services rank among the \u201cTop Sites\u201d<\/a><\/strong> per Alexa<\/a>, a third-party web metrics company. That said, YouTube follows Google to rank second, and Google\u2019s Indian version ranks ninth on the list.<\/p>\n

30. Google receives and processes over 3.5+ billion search requests per day<\/strong>, which is equivalent to 1.2 trillion searches per year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

31. The word \u201cgoogle\u201d acquired a place in the Oxford Dictionaries English<\/a><\/strong> as a verb, meaning \u201cSearch for information about (someone or something) on the Internet using the search engine Google<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n

32. \u201cGoogle knows more about you than your mother<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u201c, said Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in 2009.<\/p>\n

33. Google regained its position of being the default search engine for Mozilla Firefox<\/strong> in 2017. It replaced Yahoo, which was paying a heavy sum of $375 million a year, per Bloomberg<\/a>. Although the exact amount is not yet known, one can easily guess that Google must have offered much more than Yahoo.<\/p>\n

34. Google has a technology-driven philanthropic arm, Google.org, that hosts various initiatives and projects (like Khan Academy) to create an impact in the sectors of \u201cEducation, Economic Opportunity and Inclusion<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n

Google and its Spaces<\/h2>\n

35. Google\u2019s first office space was a rented garage<\/a><\/strong> in Menlo Park, California.<\/p>\n

36. Google has more than 70 offices<\/a> <\/strong>spanning across 50 countries.<\/p>\n

37. Google offices host food very near to Googlers<\/strong>, thanks to the announcement by Sergey Brin<\/a> that \u201cno one should be more than 200 feet away from food<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n

38. Google is a pioneer of stylish workspaces<\/strong> with innovative decorations, thus breaking the stereotypic cubic-style office spaces to spark creativity.<\/p>\n

\"Googleplex<\/figure>\n

39. 100 to 250 of Gbikes go missing<\/strong> from the campus every week. These are the multi-colored bicycles meant for the use of employees at Google.<\/p>\n

\"Gbike<\/figure>\n

40. Google officially rented a herd of goats<\/a><\/strong> in 2009 to mow grass fields on its campus at its headquarters in Mountain View, California.<\/p>\n

41. Google gifted a city-wide Wi-Fi<\/a><\/strong> to Mountain View<\/a> known as \u201cGoogleWiFi\u201d, the city hosting its headquarters in California.<\/p>\n

42. Google claims itself to be a \u201cdog company<\/a><\/strong>\u201d and notifies \u201ccats visiting our offices would be fairly stressed out<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n

43. The skeletal structure of Stan, a T-Rex dinosaur, standing at the Google\u2019s head office is the inspiration behind the \u201cDino Run\u201d game<\/strong>, which is accessible on Google Chrome<\/a> when it detects the user is offline.<\/p>\n

\"Stan,<\/figure>\n

44. Google\u2019s head office displays various structures painted in Google colors<\/strong> like a spaceship, a Lego figure, Android statues, phone boxes, etc.<\/p>\n

\"Google's<\/figure>\n

Google and its Services<\/h2>\n

45. Google services faced global outage<\/a><\/strong> for 5 minutes in 2013, which lead to a surprising drop of 40% of the worldwide internet traffic.<\/p>\n

46. Google\u2019s <\/a>dots in motion<\/a> signify the on-going action<\/strong> for your query, i.e., it tells that Google is working to provide you results.<\/p>\n

47. Google offers its homepage in some geeky languages<\/strong> \u2014 \u201cBork, bork, bork!\u201d, Hacker, Pirate, and more including a secret language \u2014 \u201cPig Latin\u201d. The reason being is to have hidden easter eggs to amuse its users.<\/p>\n

\"Geeky<\/figure>\n

48. Google has many easter eggs<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 comical features or messages \u2014 hidden into its products. These are incorporated to provide better engagement to its users. For example, google for \u201caskew\u201d, and you will see the below screen.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/figure>\n

49. Google Translate, the language translation tool from Google, supports over 100 languages<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 more than any other tool.<\/p>\n

50. Google Street View, the favorite feature of Google Maps, has panoramic views of many popular streets of the world, for which, its cars have driven more than five million miles<\/strong> (per an announcement made in 2012<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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