20 Facts about Google
20 Facts about Google
- You can use Gmail in more than 50 languages.
- When the company went public in 2004, Around 1,000 employees of Google’s became millionaires.
- Google was originally called "Backrub".
- If you search for "askew" in Google, the content will tilt slightly to the right. Try it now.
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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.
- In 2009,Google hires goats and rented around 200 goats for a week to eat the grass and fertilize the soil at its headquarters in California.
- Google hired a camel to create the Street View of a desert.
- On Google Every minute,
2 million searches are performed.
- Official tweet of Google was the words “I’m feeling lucky” in binary.
- Because Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools' Day prank.
- Lead developers of Firefox web browser's now working for Google Chrome.
- Google got its name by accident. The founders misspelled "googol".
- Google went down for 5 minutes,on August 16, 2013 and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40%.
- Google Maps calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road.
- If you search for "atari breakout" in Google Images, you can play the game.
- In 2014, about 89% of Google's US$66 billion in revenue came from advertising.
- Iran's largest airport had a Star of David embedded into its roof for 30 years until it was discovered through Google Earth.
- 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.
- YouTube is the second largest search engine, right after Google. It's bigger than Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask combined.
- 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.
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