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Google Facts

Here are some awesome facts about the most popular Search engine,'Google'so read and enjoy:


  •  The name 'Google' is actually derived from the mathematical term 'googol' which is basically 1 with a 100 zeros following it.
  •  Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally named Google 'Backrub'
  •  As part of their green initiative, Google regularly rents goats to mow the lawns of their mountain view HQ
  • Since 2010, Google has been acquiring an average of one company every week
  • Google uses a web tool called foo.bar to recruit new employees based on what they search for online
  • The first ever Google Doodle was a Burning Man stick figure that came out on August 30, 1998
  • Larry and Sergey's private planes have runways in NASA, where no other planes are allowed to land
  • Google owns common misspellings of its own name as well, such as www.gooogle.com, www.gogle.com, and www.googlr.com
  • The first Google computer storage was built with Legos
  • No part of a Google office is allowed to be more than 150 feet away from some kind of food
  • Google helps pronounce massive numbers if you type '=english' after searching for a number
  • Google wanted to sell itself to online company Excite in 1999 for $1 million, but the Excite CEO rejected the offer


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