Amazing facts about Google that you must know
Google is an internet search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the co-founders of Google.
Google has headquarters in mountain view, California, United States. Google was founded in September 1998. The parent organization of Google is alphabet Inc.
The services which are provided by Google are cloud computing, computer software, computer hardware, artificial intelligence and advertising.
Are you ready to know the amazing facts about Google? I know you will say yes, then let's begin…..
1. The most visited website
The most visited website in the world is www.google.Com . Google is the best search engine in the world if you compare with other search engines such as Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, etc….
Google has 92% search engine market share where Bing has 2% and Yahoo 1%. It means almost everyone prefers Google.
It is the largest search engine in the world. There are only a few people left who prefer other search engines.
Why do all the people prefer Google compared to other search engines?
The Google algorithm works much better as compared to other search engines. Google prefers quality and original content.
Google doesn't prefer copyrighted contents or spammy websites.
The Google search engine works much better than any other search engines.
2. Google first name
The first name of Google is backrub. At the beginning the founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin named their project (Google) as backrub.
It was named backrub because to prove the importance of sites.The search engine relied on backlinks.
Backrub was renamed as Google in 1997.
3. Why is Google spelled wrong
Do you know, the multi-billion-dollar company in the world has a spelling mistake.
The founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were going for googol.com but the domain googol.com was already taken.
Why are the founders going for googol instead of Google?
Googol means a very large number tenth to one hundredth (10^100) in decimal notation.
4. Google's first doodle
The burning man festival of 1998 was the first doodle of Google. This was the first ever doodle made by Google in the honour of the burning man festival of 1998.
Burning man is an event held every year since 1986 at black Rock desert, Nevada, United States.
5. Total number of searches on Google
The total number of searches on Google everyday is 5.6 billion. This means searches per hour on Google is 228 million and per minute is 3.8 million.
6. Google search available languages
Google search is available in 149 languages. Google is adding new languages every year.
7. Google owns misspellings
Google owns its own misspellings such as www.gooogle.com, www.googlr.com and www.gogle.com. It means even if you type these misspellings you will be redirected to the correct website which is www.google.com
8. Google initial public offering (IPO)
Google went public on August 19,2004. The company raised 1.9 billion dollars during its IPO.
Google share price during its initial public offering was 85 dollars per share. After Apple and Microsoft, Google became the third tech company worth 1 trillion dollars. Google market capitalisation is 1 trillion dollars.
9. Yahoo wanted to acquire Google
Yahoo lost a lot of opportunities because once Yahoo wanted to acquire Facebook but Zuckerberg refused that offer.
In 1998 Yahoo wanted to acquire Google for 1 million dollars. Remember Google was founded in 1998.
Again after 3 years Yahoo offered 3 billion dollars to purchase Google but the founders turned down that offer saying Google is worth 5 billion dollars.
Now, Google market capitalisation is 1 trillion dollars, Yahoo! Lost a very big opportunity.
10. Google searches from mobile
50% of people search on Google using their mobile and 45% use their desktop and only 5% people search using tablets.
Nowadays a lot of people are shifting from desktop to mobile. Many people use social media from their mobile such as Facebook, Instagram, whatsapp, Twitter, and Pinterest.
11. Google employee
When a Google employee dies Google pays a 50% salary to the employee's spouse for a decade. Google is one of the best companies in the world.
Google also pays employees children's until they turn 19, employee children receive 1000 dollars per month, that's why many people want to work in Google.
There are many companies where they don't even care about their employees while working or living.
12. Google's first playable doodle
Google released the first playable doodle on May 21,2010. PAC-man was the first ever playable doodle of Google.
Google released this doodle On PAC-man 30th anniversary. P.A.C in pac-man stands for program and control.
Japanese video game franchise Packman is owned by bandai namco entertainment.
13. Google image
Google image search was launched on July 12,2001.
Many people were searching for Jennifer Lopez Grammy dress images, regular Google search couldn't handle it that's why Google released Google image search.
Jennifer Lopez is an American singer, dancer, actress and fashion designer. You can say Google image search was inspired by Jennifer Lopez.
14. Google went down
On August 16,2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and global internet usage was reduced by 40%. That shows the importance of Google in today's world.
In just 5 minutes the global internet was reduced 40%. Many companies only depend on Google.
15. Google limit for queries
Google limit for queries is 32 words. Searches of more than 32 words will be ignored by Google. The previous limit for Google queries was 10 words; later it was increased to 32 words.
. Conclusion
Google rules the internet. The 92% search engine market share shows that there is no other search engine that can compete with Google.
If the global internet usage decreased by 40% in 5 minutes, then just imagine what would happen if Google shut down for 30 minutes.
Google is handling billions of searches everyday as you already know, Google is handling 5.6 billion searches everyday.
Google plays a very important role in our daily activities. Many of us spend most of the time on Google products.
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