Facts about Google

Amazing Facts about Google

1. The original nickname was BackRub due to the backlink technology used to determine site importance but eventually changed the name to Google originating from the misspelling of the word “Googol (the mathematician’s term for the number one followed by one hundred zeros) to signify the large quantities of information for people that it would provide.
2. Google began as a research project in 1996 
3. Google.com domain went online in 1997 
4. The first funding of $100,000 for Google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-founder of Sun Microsystems 
5. The CEO for ‘Excite’ George Bell rejected to buy Google when it was offered to him for $1 million when Brin and Page were finding the search engine taking up to much time from their research in 1999 
6. The first round of venture capital of $25 million was provided in 1999 by Kleiner Perkins andSequoia Capital 5 years before it floated 
7. Google incorporated in 1998 
8. 30 million pages indexed in 1998 
9. 1 billion pages indexed in 2000 
10. Eric Schmidt named CEO in in 2001 
11. Acquired Blogger in 2003 
12. Adsense launched in 2003 
13. Gmail launched in 2004 
14. Google IPO in 2004
15. 8 billion pages indexed in in 2004 
16. Acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion 
17. 1 Trillion pages indexed in in 2008 
18. Android announced in 2007 
19. Chrome launched in 2008 
20. 1.8 million shares given to Stanford University for its PageRank Patent sold by Stanford in 2005 for $336 million 
21. It currently runs over 1 million computer servers in data centers around the world 
22. Google search handles over 1 billion searches per day 
23. 7.2 billion daily page views 
24. 87.8 billion monthly worldwide searches conducted on Google sites 
25. Google’s global search market share is 85% 
26. Daily visitors to Google is 620 million 
27. Google.com’s worldwide ranking is number 1 
28. Revenue in 2000 was $19 million 
29. Profit in 200 was a loss of $14 million 
30. In 2009 Google’s revenue was nearly $23 billion 
31. In 2009 Google’s profit was $6.5 billion 
32. 97% is the percentage of revenue from advertising 
33. Stock price at its IPO in 2004 was $85 
34. Stock price in 2010 was $535 
35. Over 19,000 employees 
36. 37% are research staff 
37. 37% are sales staff 
38. A ‘Noogler’ is a new person at Google 
39. 45% of Google’s products are currently in Beta 
40. YouTube market share is 39.4% 
41. 270,000 words a minute are written on Blogger 
42. 146 million Gmail users 
43. Google analytics is used on 57% of the top 10,000 websites 
44. 400,000 new Android devices are activated every day 
45. 100 million activated Android devices 
46. 200,000 Apps available for the Android 
47. 4.5 billion Apps have been installed from the Android Market 
48. Google’s Android mobile operating system is the world’s leading smart phone platform surpassing Nokia and Apple with a 33% share 
49. 33 million Android operating systems were shipped in the the fourth quarter of 2010 
50. The Google Driverless car named the ‘Stanley’ won the DARPA Grand challenge and the $2 million in prize money from the US Department of Defense in 2005