Google has turned 25 today some fun facts:
– Google Ads are they main source of income
– Google was originally named BackRub
– Google is a play on the word “googol
– Google’s first office was a rented garage
– Gmail was launched on April Fool’s Day, no joke
– Google gave Mountain View the gift of free Wi-Fi
– Google has 8.5 Billion searches per day worldwide
– On August 16, 2013, Google was not reachable for 5 minutes, in that time the global Internet usage decreased by 40%
– Google wanted in 1997 to sell their search engine system to Yahoo for $ 2 million
– Google has about 90% of worldwide market share
– Stanford University Owns the Patent to Google’s Original Search Algorithm
– Jennifer Lopez’s Famous Green Dress Led to the Creation of Google Images
– Google Acquired YouTube at Denny’s Over a Bowl of Mozzarella Sticks
– The First Google Doodle Featured Burning Man
– In 2006 Google became a verb
– Google was founded on September 4, 1998
– The Google homepage is known for its simplicity.
– Google’s headquarters is called the Googleplex.
– The Android operating system is owned by Google
– In August 2015, Google became a subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc.
– Google Docs started out as an experiment by 3 programmers
– Larry Page and Sergey Brin collected cash from professors
– Google is banned in China
– 15% of new Google searches generated every day
– Since Google launched Street View in 2007, the team has photographed more than 7.2 million miles of road