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Every day, 16% of the searches that occurare ones that Google has never seen before.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google was originally called "Backrub".♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1999, the founders of Google actually tried to sell it to Excite for just US$1 million. Excite turned them down.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The first Google Doodle was dedicated to the Burning Man festival attended by Google founders in 1998.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google headquarters is called "The Googleplex", which comes from the word "googolplex", meaning a 1 followed by one hundred 0s.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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When a Google employee dies, their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children US$1,000 per month until they turn 19.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The "I'm feeling lucky" button costs Google US$110 million per year, as it bypasses all ads.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google earns US$20 billion a year from advertising, more than the primetime revenues of CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX combined.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google has found GPA's and test scores to be "worthless as criteria for hiring"; they have teams where 14% of their employees haven't gone to college.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Because Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools' Day prank.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google.org is the charitable arm of Google, committing about US$100 million in investments and grants to nonprofits annually.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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On April Fool's day of 2007, Google sent an e-mail out to its employees warning that a python was loose in the facilities. It wasn't a joke.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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For the 4th consecutive year, Google was named the best company to work for in the U.S. by Fortune Mag in 2014.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled "googol", which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google prefers dogs to cats. Their official code of conduct specifically states they are a dog company.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40%.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google has a version of their site translated into the language of the Klingons, from Star Trek.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Googlehas been acquiring2 companies per monthsince 2010.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The domain GoogleSucks.com is owned by Google.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A single Google search requires more computing power than it took to send Apollo 11 to the Moon.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google Maps calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google.com/Mars offers visible imagery view, infrared and elevation views of the planet Mars.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2013, Google founded Calico, an anti-aging company designed to ultimately "cure" death.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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When Gmail was introduced by Google with an unbelievable 1GB free storage in 2004, Hotmail only offered 2MB.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google Translate generates its answers by trawling through decades of comparative human translated works, such as UN documents and Harry Potter novels.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google takes over 200 factors into account to deliver the best results for any query in a fraction of a second.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Versace dress Jennifer Lopez wore to the 2000 Grammy Awards sparked the creation of Google Images.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Steve Jobs once called Google to tell them the yellow gradient in the second "O" of their logo wasn't quite right.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2010, Nicaragua accidentally invaded Costa Rica because of a mistake in Google Maps.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Facebook's first annual Hacker Cup coding challenge was won by a programmer at Google. He showed up at Facebook headquarters to collect his prize wearing his Google employee badge.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were creating Google later became the CEO of YouTube.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In the U.S., Google searches for "why is my poop green" peak between 5 and 6 AM , while "how to roll a joint" peaks between 1 and 2 AM.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google owns many domains
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Google offers employees free condoms that come in blue, red, green, and yellow and have the phrase "I'm Feeling Lucky!" printed on them.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google bought YouTube for US$1.65 billion in stocks just 18 months after YouTube's creation.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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YouTube is the second largest search engine, right after Google. It's bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask combined.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google handles over 2 trillion searches per year. That's about 270 searches per person on Earth.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The dots in Gmail addresses don't make any difference. An email sent to hom.er.j.sim.ps.on@gmail.com still goes to homerjsimpson@gmail.com.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google's internet services run on 2 billion lines of code. That's 5000 times as many lines as the original Space Shuttle.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google's Artificial-Intelligence Bot says the purpose of living is 'to live forever'♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google delisted 1.75 billion websites until 2016 because of copyright takedown requests.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Google has a comprehensive timeline of everything you do with their products, called "My Activity", including websites you visited with Chrome, YouTube Videos, Music and apps you use on your Android.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An artificial intelligence system developed by Google and the University of Oxford can lip read better than humans.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Donald Trump was the most Googled person of 2016 in 88 countries, including Mexico, Spain, South Africa and New Zealand.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Each year, Google receives more than two million job applications from around the world.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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When a border is disputed by two or more territories, Google Maps changes its borders in each country to reflect that country's beliefs.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1998, Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos became an early investor in Google. He invested US$250,000, which was worth about US$2.2 billion today.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2012, Google acquired Motorola for around $12.5 billion, only to sell it to Lenovo two years later for just $2.9 billion.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Iran's largest airport had a Star of David embedded into its roof for 30 years until it was discovered through Google Earth.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
