Google was originally called "Backrub".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 colle
In 1999, the founders of Google actually tried to sell it to Excite for just US$1 million. Excite turned them down.ge.
If you search for "askew" in Google, the content will tilt slightly to the right.The first Google Doodle was dedicated to the Burning Man festival attended by Google founders in 1998.
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.Google intends to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.Every day, 16% of the searches that occur are ones that Google has never seen before.Google hired a camel to create the Street View of a desert.
Microsoft pays you to use Bing instead of Google.The "I'm feeling lucky" button costs Google US$110 million per year, as it bypasses all ads.Google earns US$20 billion a year from advertising, more than the primetime revenues of CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX combined.
Every minute,
2 million searches are performed on Google.
Because Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools' Day prank.Firefox web browser's lead developer is now working for Google Chrome.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.
Google's first tweet ever was "I'm feeling lucky" written in binary code.Google's First Computer Storage Was Made From LEGO.Google is developing a computer so smart it can program itself.
Google beats Facebook: it's the world's most visited website. A single Google search requires more computing power than it took to send Apollo 11 to the Moon.
