Amazing facts about Google


 One of the tech gaiants and mountain like company Google, which is used by billions of people worldwide has some amazing facts that you must know.

Here are amazing facts about GOOGLE


• Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. 


• The name Google is a play on the word "googol," which is a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. 


• Google's first office was located in a garage in Menlo Park, California. 


• The company's mission statement is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." 


• Google's search engine handles more than 3.5 billion searches per day. 


• Google has over 135,000 employees worldwide. 


• Google's headquarters, known as the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. 


• Google has over 200 product offerings, including Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Drive. 


• Google's original search algorithm was called PageRank, named after co-founder Larry Page. 


• Google's first doodle was created in 1998, and it was a stick figure standing behind the second O in Google. 


• Google's first tweet was "I'm feeling lucky" in binary code in 2009. 


• Google's Android operating system is used by more than 2 billion active devices worldwide. 


• Google Translate can translate over 100 languages. 


• Google Maps covers over 220 countries and territories. 


• Google Street View has captured imagery of over 10 million miles of roads. 


• Google's first acquisition was a company called Deja News in 2001, which became Google Groups. 


• Google has acquired over 200 companies, including YouTube, Waze, and Nest. 


• Google has a fleet of self-driving cars called Waymo. 


• Google has a corporate culture that includes perks such as free gourmet meals, on-site massages, and nap pods. 


• Google's corporate motto was originally "Don't be evil," but it was removed in 2018 and replaced with "Do the right thing." 


• Google's search engine uses a complex algorithm that takes into account over 200 ranking factors. 


• Google's search engine also uses machine learning to improve search results. 


• Google has a page called Google Doodles where users can see all of the past and current Google doodles. 


• Google has a program called Google for Nonprofits that provides free or discounted access to Google products for eligible nonprofits. 


• Google's annual revenue in 2020 was over $180 billion. 


• Google's parent company is called Alphabet, which was created in 2015. 


• Alphabet's CEO is Sundar Pichai, who was previously the CEO of Google. 


• Google has a program called Google Cloud, which provides cloud computing services to businesses and organizations. 


• Google has a philanthropic arm called Google.org, which supports nonprofit organizations through grants and technology. 


• Google has a deep learning project called DeepMind, which has developed artificial intelligence capable of beating human champions in games such as chess and Go. 


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