10 Surprising Facts About Google:
- Google estimates that an ad on its homepage would cost $10 million.
- The name Google is actually a misspelling of the word ‘Googol’ which is the large number 10100; that is, the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
- Google ‘Doodles’ started in 1998 with a stick man placed behind the logo. It let user know the founders had gone to the Burning Man festival.
- Google doesn't use lawnmowers to cut its grass. In 2009 they rented 200 goats to chow on the grass at their HQ.
- The Google homepage is available in over 80 languages. In case of alien invasion, one of them is Star Trek’s Klingon.
- Google has its own dinosaur called Stan. The T-Rex skeleton lives at their California HQ.
- Yahoo turned down the chance to buy Google for $1 million in 1997. Today its worth $200 billion, Yahoo! just $20 billion.
- Google's first tweet was : “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010." – it means ‘I’m feeling lucky’ in binary.
- The ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button costs Google over $100 million a year, in lost of ad revenue. It remains as studies show it comforts users.
- Google has more than 1 million servers – 2% of the world’s total. It receives over 1 billion search requests every day.
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