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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 par...

Instagram Facts

Today we will be looking forward to the amazing facts about the youth's favourite social media "Instagram":-  Instagram was founded in October, 2010 .   More than 40 billion photos have been shared in the Instagram history.  Instagram was sold for $1 billion in 2012.  Currently, there is more than 4.2 billion number of Instagram likes per day.   Most followed Instagram user is Christiano Ronaldo.  Around 95 millions photos is uploaded per a single day.  Instagram has been installed 1 billion times on the Google Play Store alone.   32% of all Internet users are on Instagram.   59% of internet users between the ages of 18 and 29 use Instagram  When Instagram introduced videos, 5 million videos were uploaded in the first 24 hours .

Twitter Facts

We all are familiar with the word 'Twitter'.So here are some enthuastic facts about twitter that will blow your mind :- The US Airways crash in New York City’s Hudson River in January 2009 heralded Twitter as becoming the prominent news breaking social media network In 2010 Twitter started monetizing its platform with promoted tweets, trends and accounts, 4 years after it launched in March 2006 In 2011 it teamed up with Apple and Twitter was integrated into Apple’s mobile operating system IOS 5. This provided a huge surge in user acquisition For fun in 2014 it launched a “Discover your  first tweet” service. Timeline views for the last 3 months touched 182 billiony Revenue at Twitter is approaching an annualised rate of $2 billion a year. The latest quarter revenue results were $432 million which was a 97 percent increase. Monthly active users (MAU) sit currently at 288 million There are 3,600 employees 50% of the employees are engineers 80% of Twitter active us...

Facebook Facts

Read Some Mind-Blowing Facebook Facts And Get Shocked - You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. About 2500 people have been killed for unfriending them on Facebook. There are about 30 million dead people on facebook. Facebook has been blocked in China Since 2009. About 600,000 Facebook accounts are attempted to be hacked every single day. Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green colorblindness. Facebook's Likes button was known as Awesome Button.

Whatsapp Facts

We all are aware about whatsapp and most of us use it on daily basis.Read some fascinating whatsapp facts and get stunned:- WhatsApp founded in 2009 by former Yahoo!  Sequoia Capital invested $8 million in 2011. 70% of users are active on a daily basis.  WhatsApp says they are adding 1 million users everyday.  They currently employ 50 people. Big Fact - Jan Koum and Brian Acton, who couldn't get a job at Facebook. They decided to develop a simple messaging app for the new iPhone ecosystem and named it WhatsApp. Ironically, in 2014, WhatsApp was purchased for $19 billion by the same Facebook that wouldn't hire Koum and Acton.

Internet Facts

 1. According to Google, the internet consisted of 5 Million Terabytes of Data way back in 2010. 2. As of Sept 2014, There are more than a billion websites on the Internet. 3. 3.1 Billion out of the 7 Billion people on earth is already online. 4. 30,000+ Websites are hacked every day. 5. Approximately 5000 domain names are registered every hour. 6. Facebook boasts of a massive 1.44 Billion users. 7. The first ever email was sent in 1971. 8. 250 Billion emails are sent out daily. 9. The world’s first website is still online. 10. Twitter was earlier known as Twttr.