30 Fun Facts About Google You Never Knew About

2. New Searches every day

Every day, 16% of the searches that occur are ones that Google has never seen before. That Means, New Search Query every day :O

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3. Thank You Excite 😀

In 1999, the founders of Google actually tried to sell it to Excite for just US$1 million. Excite just Rejected the proposal.

4. Google’s Recruitment

Google uses a web tool called foo.bar for the recruitment of new employees based on what they search online.

Better Search for Java, Python, React or machine learning. Who knows, you get a job offer from Google 😉

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5. Google’s GPA

Google has found GPAs and test scores to be “worthless as criteria for hiring”; they have teams where 14% of its employees haven’t gone to college. Now that is a pretty interesting fact for those who are interested in working at Google.

Do not focus on that 14% of people. Rather focus on that 86 % who have a college degree. That 14% are the luckiest people and you may not.

6. Google Scanner

Google aims to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.

7. Gmail & April Fool

Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, which is why many people thought it was an April Fools’ Day prank.

8. Google is Super busy

Every minute, 2 million searches are performed on Google.

9. Google Can Speak Numbers for You

Google helps pronounce massive numbers if you type ‘=english’ after searching for a number.

10. Google Mirror

There’s a rotated version of Google known as ‘Google Mirror’, which shows everything in a mirrored avatar.

11. Google’s Python E-mail

On April Fool’s day of 2007, Google sent an e-mail to its employees with a warning that a python is roaming at the Google campus and It wasn’t a joke.

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12. Google’s First Tweet

Google’s first tweet ever was “I’m feeling lucky” written in binary code.

13. Google & LEGO

Google’s First Computer Storage Was Made From LEGO.

14. Some Good Mistakes

Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled “googol”, which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes.

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15. Google Runs the Internet

On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40%.

16. Google Can Speak Klingons

Google has a version of its site translated into the language of the Klingons, from Star Trek. You can try it here

17. The domain GoogleSucks.com is owned by Google.

You can never curse Google on the internet. Including GoogleSucks, Google also owned domains like gogle.com, gooogle.com, googal.com, and many more.

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18. Google Uses You to Run Maps

Google Maps calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road.

19. Let’s go to Mars

Google.com/Mars offers visible imagery view, infrared and elevation views of the planet Mars.

20. Google Earth Size

The total size of Google Earth’s database is over 20 Petabytes.

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21. Gmail Was Rich

When Gmail was introduced by Google with an unbelievable 1GB free storage in 2004, Hotmail only offered 2MB.

22. This is for SEOs

Google takes over 200 factors into account to deliver the best results for any query in a fraction of a second.

23. Thank You J-Lo

The Versace dress Jennifer Lopez wore to the 2000 Grammy Awards is the reason that gave birth to Google Images. A lot of people were searching for the dress and that idea gave birth to Google Image Search.

Thank you, J-Lo, for your music and for Google Image Search. Just get us a proper reverse video search tool now.

24. Every Detail Counts

Steve Jobs once called Google to tell them the yellow gradient in the second “O” of their logo wasn’t quite right.

Steve wants everything to be very perfect. At first, I thought that is a rumor but that is 100% true.

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25. Just Silicon Valley thing

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.

26. Oops

Google offers employees free condoms that come in blue, red, green, and yellow and have the phrase “I’m Feeling Lucky!” printed on them. That phrase happened to be true.

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27. Youtube & Google

Google bought YouTube for US$1.65 billion in stocks just 18 months after YouTube’s creation.

28. Google Handles a lot

Google handles over 2 trillion searches per year. That’s about 270 searches per person on Earth.

29. Google has a timeline of everything you do with Google Products.

This is called “My Activity”, including websites you visited with Chrome, YouTube Videos, Music, and apps you use on your Android. Know your Activities on Google here. You can even track your Android Phone

30. Google, the Best Company

For the 4th consecutive year, Google was named the best company to work for in the U.S. by Fortune Mag in 2014.

Bonus

All the above facts were found on Google 😉

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30 Fun Facts about Google: Tell us More

These are some of the interesting Google facts that many people don’t know. How many of them are already known to you? Do you know other cool facts about Google, let me know in the comment section. Do hit the share button and let your friends and family know more about Google and its fun facts.