1)Google takes on moonshots projects that could change the world for millions of people.
2)Larry Page and Sergey Brin together own 16 percent of its shares, who founded Google while they were Ph.D. Students at Stanford University on September 4, 1998.
3)Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California.
4)In 2013, about 91% of Google's $55.5 billion in revenue came from advertising alone.
5)33% of all searches on Google come from smartphone
6)The Google search technology is called PageRank.
7)Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page, who became CEO of Alphabet
8)Google's search index is more than 100 million gigabytes in size. It would take 100,000 one-terabyte personal drives to contain the same amount of data.
9)The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997,and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998.
10)When a Google employee dies, their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children US$1,000 per month until they turn 19.
11)”Google knows more about you than your mother” these are words quoted by a critic
12)Google has photographed more than five million miles of road for its Street View maps.
13)z.stanford.edu and google.stanford.edu are the names with which Google ran at Stanford School of Engineering which is an attempt to analyze and catalog the world wide web.
14)Google Sky Maps allows you to view stars, constellations, galaxies and planets.
15)Donald Trump was the most Googled person of 2016 in 88 countries, including Mexico, Spain, South Africa and New Zealand.
16)Google can help you decide what to eat.
17)Craig Silverstein currently serves as the director of technology at Google, who is the first employee of Google Inc.’s hired in September 1998.
18)Google has rented in several occasions goats to mow their Mountain View HQ as part of their green initiative.
19)Google hired a camel to create the Street View of a desert.
20)Google has had many logos since its renaming from BackRub.
21)Google intends to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020.
22)`To Google` is actually a recognised verb in Oxford dictionary. Similarly `Unfriend` is also a recognised verb.
23)Google is used by 57% american kids as their first word.
24)Google is a super dog-friendly company. It proudly names "company dogs," like Yoshka
25)Google uses a secret web tool called foo.bar to recruit new employees based on what they search for online.
26)Google's first tweet ever was "I'm feeling lucky" written in binary code
27)The First Google Storage Was Made From LEGO bricks.
28)Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was an April Fools' Day prank
29)Google takes over 200 factors into account before delivering you the best results to any query in a fraction of a second.
30)88 languages can be used in Google home page.
31)There are about 40k Google searches per second
32)Google beats Facebook: it's the world's most visited website.
33)Larry Page and Sergey Brin made the first Google Doodle in August 1998.
34)Google operates 70 offices in more than 40 countries.
35)Google has a pet T-rex, named Stan, which lives at their California headquarters.
36)Google released it first android phone on January 5,2010, with the name Nexus One.
37)Go to Google Mars. You can see a map of Mars. Cool
38)On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40%.
39)Type any number in the search bar and Google will spell it out for you.
40)Google's Artificial-Intelligence Bot says the purpose of living is 'to live forever'
41)Google Has a Company Dinosaur
42)The domain GoogleSucks.com is owned by Google.
43)Google's First Ever "Company Snack" Was Swedish Fish
44)Google.com/Weddings is a little known free service to plan your wedding.
45)Google's headquarter is called "Googleplex". Googolplex is the number equivalent to ten raised to the power of a googol.
46)The CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, was the first female employee at Google, in 1999.
47)You can see underwater sea life, coral reefs and wrecks using Google Maps.
48)In 2013, Google founded Calico, an anti-aging company designed to ultimately "cure" death.
49)In 2015, Google dropped their old motto "Don't Be Evil."
50)Google.com/Mars offers visible imagery view, infrared and elevation views of the planet Mars.
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