8 Surprising Facts about Google

Google has become an essential part of our lives.  We have often heard people saying let’s “Google it.” Users can search for the information they desire by entering keywords and using operators. In March 2007, Google was noted as the most visited website, having over 528 million visits for the month. Here is a list of 8 interesting facts about Google

#1. Fact 1:

When you sit down at your computer and perform a Google search, the machine checks  the google index to determine the most relevant search results to be delivered to you. Google's search engine is a powerful tool; it takes over 200 factors into account before delivering you the best results for your query. Google uses a special algorithm called the Googlebot to generate search results.

#2. Fact 2:

Google owns a cluster of domains such as, Gooogle.com, Gogle.com, and Googlr.com, which directs to Google.com. Interestingly, Google also owns 466453.com, which is strange. Take a look at your telephone keypad, and match up the numbers to the letters “4 GHI 6 MNO 6 MNO 4 GHI 5 JKL 3 DEF,” that is “466453= Google.” So if you type any of these knowingly or unknowingly, it doesn’t take you to some strange page, you will still land up on Google.com.


#3. Fact 3:

When Google was founded in September 1998, it served ten thousand search queries per day. Currently, there are more than 2 million Google searches per second. The search engine finds a trillion unique URLs on the Web, crawls many billion sites a day, and processes numerous searches every month. Current Google search volume estimates are delivered through statistical analysis.

#4. Fact 4:

Google takes on the best projects that could change the world for millions of people. In 2012, Google introduced the Cherokee language in Gmail. While Google has continuously expanded its language support for Gmail and its other services, this was the first time that Google added a Native American tribal language to its list. As part of this effort, Google also added Cherokee to its recently launched virtual keyboards for Gmail. This has been helping the younger generation to communicate with the elders.

#5. Fact 5:

The concept of the Google Doodle was formed on August 30, 1998 when company co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin placed a simple stick-figure drawing behind the second "o" in the word “Google”. This first Google logo art was planned as a message to the website's users that the founders were "out of office" at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.

#6. Fact 6:

Advertising is one of the biggest drivers of the search giant’s revenue gains. In 2013, about 91% of Google's $55.5 billion revenue was derived from its advertising programs. Google's AdWords allows advertisers to display their advertisements in the Google content network, through either a cost-per-click or cost-per-view scheme. The sister service, Google AdSense, allows website owners to display advertisements on their website and earn money every time the ads are clicked.

#7. Fact 7:

Google's search index is more than 100 million gigabytes in size. It would take 100,000 one-terabyte personal drive to contain the same amount of data.

#8. Fact 8:

Google might be the only company with a clear goal to reduce the amount of time people spend on its site. The company uses a policy often called Innovation Time Off, where Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20 percent of their work time on projects that interest them.