What are some amazing facts about Google ?

. PAC-MAN became Google’s first ever playable doodle on May 21, 2010, for the day being the 30th anniversary of the arcade game.

The first ever Google Doodle was a Burning Man stick figure that came out on August 30, 1998

Google’s team of designers and illustrators have produced more than 2000 doodles for Google’s homepage since its first launch in August 1998

Larry and Sergey's private planes have runways in NASA, where no other planes are allowed to land

Alphabet Inc. is the parent company of Google, which was founded in 2015 with the desire to separate its web services business from its other ambitious companies. Its name speaks of “alpha” as “an investment that returns above the benchmark”, suggesting the company as a great opportunity.

Alphabet Inc. is a public holding company with “abc.xyz” as its website. Its founders did not have much of a choice because “alphabet.com” was taken, so they ended up with “abc.xyz”. I find it is a good domain name for a company named “Alphabet” as alphabets run from “a, b, c, …” to “x, y, and z”.

The company’s unofficial slogan “Don’t be evil” was the motto of its code of conduct until 2015, when it was replaced by “Do the right thing” by its parent company Alphabet, but retained as is in Google’s code of conduct

Alphabet along with its subsidiary company, Google, has done as many as 214 acquisitions since 2001 up to 2017, averaging to a company a month.

Alphabet holds various subsidiary companies including Nest Labs, AdMob, DoubleClick, Kaggle, Crashlytics, Dropcam, Xively, and many more.

Alphabet leads Amazon to be the world’s largest Internet company by the company’s market capitalization (as of February 2018).

The first Google computer storage was built with Legos

The market value of Alphabet’s share has seen a significant rise from near to $50 to greater than $1000 (in 2018) since August 2004.

The total revenue of Alphabet crossed $100 billion ($110 billion) in 2017 — the first time in the company’s history of 20 years.

Google employees in the US get death benefits which guarantee that the surviving spouse will receive 50% of their salary every year for the next decade

No part of a Google office is allowed to be more than 150 feet away from some kind of food

Ad business forms the major contributor to the revenue of Google and even Alphabet, reaching to 84 percent of the Alphabet’s income in 2017.

Google is internet’s most visited website according to Alexa.

Alphabet spent around $13.9 billion on R&D (Research and Development) activities during the year of 2017, making it rank second to Amazon.

Google helps pronounce massive numbers if you type '=english' after searching for a number

Over 1 billion search requests per day are handled by Google. It is done by using over 1 million computers.

Google ranked 1 place to work for six consecutive years from 2012 to 2017 (as well as in 2007 and 2008), meaning eight times in 11 years on the Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For since 2007 up until 2017.

There's a rotated version of Google known as 'Google Mirror', which shows everything in a mirrored avatar

Google became the world’s largest search engine in June 2000.

foo.bar is a secret hiring tool that Google uses to recruit developers and programmers with superb coding skills. The tool presents itself as a game to its users, asking them to solve coding challenges of growing difficulty.

Google wanted to sell itself to online company Excite in 1999 for $1 million, but the Excite CEO rejected the offer