Important FACTS about Google

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Started in: January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Google.com domain went online in 1997

First funding: $100,000 for google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co founder of Sun Micro systems

Name: Googol but accidentally it is named as Google by original founders

Servers: 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters

Head Quarters is called as “Googleplex”

57% of American kids say ‘Google’ as their first word.

620 Million visitors visit Google.com daily.

A Google employee is named a “Googler” while a new team member is called a “Noogler”

Google makes 99% of its profit from its advertising.

50% of the traffic to Wikipedia is generated from Google searches.

Google owns YouTube, DoubleClick, On2 Technologies, Picnik, Aardvark, AdMob, Zagat, and Motorola Mobility

Google is the Internet’s most visited website globally according to Alexa (Web information Company)

In June 2000, Google became the world’s largest search engine.b

In June 2006, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added “Google” as a verb.c

In Feb 2002, Klingon became one of Google’s 72 language interfaces.t

In 2010, Google’s total assets were $57.851 billion dollars

When Google introduced its “Did you mean . . .?” feature, site traffic doubled.c

Important Points about Google :

Google incorporated in 1998
30 million pages indexed in 1998
1 billion pages indexed in 2000
Eric Schmidt named CEO in in 2001
Acquired Blogger in 2003
Adsense launched in 2003
Gmail launched in 2004
Google IPO in 2004
8 billion pages indexed in in 2004
Acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion
1 Trillion pages indexed in in 2008
Android announced in 2007
Chrome launched in 2008
1.8 million shares given to Stanford University for its PageRank Patent sold by Stanford in 2005 for $336 million
It currently runs over 1 million computer servers in data centers around the world
Google search handles over 1 billion searches per day
7.2 billion daily page views
87.8 billion monthly worldwide searches conducted on Google sites
Google’s global search market share is 85%
Daily visitors to Google is 620 million
Google.com’s worldwide ranking is number 1
Revenue in 2000 was $19 million
Profit in 2000 was a loss of $14 million
In 2009 Google’s revenue was nearly $23 billion
In 2009 Google’s profit was $6.5 billion
97% is the percentage of revenue from advertising
Stock price at its IPO in 2004 was $85
Stock price in 2010 was $535
Over 19,000 employees
37% are research staff
37% are sales staff
A ‘Noogler’ is a new person at Google
45% of Google’s products are currently in Beta
YouTube market share is 39.4%
270,000 words a minute are written on Blogger
146 million Gmail users
Google analytics is used on 57% of the top 10,000 websites
400,000 new Android devices are activated every day
100 million activated Android devices
200,000 Apps available for the Android
4.5 billion Apps have been installed from the Android Market
Google’s Android mobile operating system is the world’s leading smart phone platform surpassing Nokia and Apple with a 33% share
33 million Android operating systems were shipped in the the fourth quarter of 2010
The Google Driverless car named the ‘Stanley’ won the DARPA Grand challenge and the $2 million in prize money from the US Department of Defense in 2005

Googles First Tweet :

“I’m feeling lucky”

Google’s first-ever Twitter post was in February 2004. It was binary (“I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.”) means “I’m feeling lucky” which can be seen in the front page of google.