10 Amazing Facts Of Google You Don’t Want To Miss

Google is the world's most popular search engine with an annual turnover of USD 66 billion as on 2014. It has some remarkable facts and figures which will surely amaze you. Check out few of them below :

1] 14% of the Employees in Google have never been to a college. Google doesn't believe on marks. Old Employees are called 'Googlers' and new ones are called 'Nooglers'.

2] In 1999, Google founders tried to sell Google to Excite for $ 1 million, but they refused. In 2002, Yahoo wanted to buy Google for $ 3 Billion, but Google refused.

Today, Google is a $400 Billion company.

Image source : Telegraph

3] If a Google employee dies, their spouses get half of the salary for 10 years, they will also get stock benefits and their children will get $1000 every month till they turn 19. And the best part is, there is no tenure requirements for these benefits.

4. Google is aiming at digitizing all known 129 million books in the world by the end of 2020.

5] Google street view has covered 28 million miles of roads. To create street view of desert, google hires camel.

6. Google also hires more than 200 goats from a company called California Grazing to replace the lawnmowers in order to reduce carbon emission. (I wonder if they avail the same benefits as humans.)

7] In 1999 it took one month for google to crawl and index 50 million pages. In 2012 same work takes less than a minute. More than 2 million searches are done every minute today.

8] Google's first computer storage was made from Lego.

9. On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes. 40% of the global internet traffic dropped. For those five minutes all google services including You Tube, Google Drive, Google search were unavailable.

10. Google's homepage is so simple because the founders didn't know HTML. Initially one has to press the return key as they didn't know how to design a submit key. Moreover, till 2001, homepage of google was aligned to the right instead of center.