Sunday, 28 September 2014

11 Interesting Facts About Google

1. There are more than 2 million searches on Google per second.

2. On an average, Google acquires 3 companies per month.

3. The name Google was created due to the misspelling of the word googol, which means the number one followed by hundred zeroes.

4. The main reason that the Google page is so plain and empty is because the creators (Larry Page and Sergei Brin) did not know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.

5. New employees at Google are called Noogles and are made to wear a propeller beanie cap on their first Friday.

6. The "I'm Feeling Lucky Button" is almost never used, but in trials it was seen that removing the button would reduce the Google experience.

7. Google's traffic doubled with the addition of the "did you mean" feature.

8. All the letters in the word "google" have been copyrighted by Google.

9. Google is visited by 620 million users everyday.

10. Up to 97% of Google's revenue comes from advertisements.

11. Google's toughest competitors are Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Mozilla.


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