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1. The name 'Google' came from a spelling mistake made by the original founders. It was actually meant to be 'Googol'.
2. 'Googol' is a mathematical term that means 1 followed by one hundred zeroes.
3. The Burning Man doodle was the first Google Doodle to mark the Burning Man festival in Nevada in 1998.
4. The very first Google Doodle was designed as a kind of "out of office" message in 1998.
5. Google has the largest network of translators in the world.
6. The Google logo wasn't actually centered on the page until March 31, 2001.
7. Google was started as a Research Project at Stanford university by two students namely Larry page and Sergey Brin in January 1996.
8. Google employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects.
9. Google consists of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.
10. Gmail was used internally for nearly two years prior to its launch to the public.
11. Nearly 57% of the American kids use the Google as their first word.
12. The infamous “I feel lucky” is nearly never used. However, users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.
13. Daily more than 700 million visitors visit the Google.com
14. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.
15. Most of the revenue about 97% is coming to Google by their advertising services
16. Google Copyright message was inserted to act as a crude end of page marker due to the sparseness of the homepage.
17. Daily Google is processing over 20 petabyte of information.
18. Google's first ever 'company snack' was Swedish Fish.
19. When Google was started it indexed around 25,000 pages. Now it is indexing some billions of pages.
20. Google rents goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ.
21. Total Google assets in the year 2010 was $57.851 billion Dollars
22. Google's first ever Twitter post, sent in February 2009, reads "I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010." It means "I'm feeling lucky."
23. For the Smooth operation Google uses over 1 million computers and handles over 1 billion requests per day.
24. The first Google storage was made from LEGO.
25. Google became the world's largest search engine in the year 2010.
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