What are some amazing facts about Google ?

Largest network of translators in the word is owned by Google

100 to 250 of Gbikes go missing from the campus every week. These are the multi-colored bicycles meant for the use of employees at Google.

Google discovered that there was around 6 types of email users by using it internally for nearly 2 years prior to launch in public.

Google purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in 2011, whereas it sold it for $2.91 billion in 2014.

Google officially rented a herd of goats in 2009 to mow grass fields on its campus at its headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Google gifted a city-wide Wi-Fi to Mountain View known as “GoogleWiFi”, the city hosting its headquarters in California.

Google has spent around $9.8 billion on R&D in 2012.

. Google claims itself to be a “dog company” and notifies “cats visiting our offices would be fairly stressed out“.

”Google knows more about you than your mother” these are words quoted by a critic

The skeletal structure of Stan, a T-Rex dinosaur, standing at the Google’s head office is the inspiration behind the “Dino Run” game, which is accessible on Google Chrome when it detects the user is offline.

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.

Google’s head office displays various structures painted in Google colors like a spaceship, a Lego figure, Android statues, phone boxes, etc.

”BlackRub” is the nick name given by the founders to the search engine, They changed it to Google, originated by misspelling the word “googol”.

Google services faced global outage for 5 minutes in 2013, which lead to a surprising drop of 40% of the worldwide internet traffic.

. Google’s dots in motion signify the on-going action for your query, i.e., it tells that Google is working to provide you results.

Craig Silverstein currently serves as the director of technology at Google, who is the first employee of Google Inc.’s hired in September 1998.

Google made its first Google Doodle in the year 1999.

The concept of the doodle was born even before the company was incorporated.

.There are more than 1000 doodles created by the team called doodlers in Google.They are talented illustrators who work hard to bring smiles on faces of people who visit the homepage.

Google has many easter eggs — comical features or messages — hidden into its products. These are incorporated to provide better engagement to its users. For example, google for “askew”, and you will see the below screen.

Google Translate, the language translation tool from Google, supports over 100 languages — more than any other tool.

Google translate could translate more than 80 languages.

Google’s annual income is greater than 50 billion dollars.

Google Street View, the favorite feature of Google Maps, has panoramic views of many popular streets of the world, for which, its cars have driven more than five million miles (per an announcement made in 2012).

The Word “Google” Has Been Derived From A Mathematical Term “Googol”, Which Means 1 With A Hundred Zeroes Following It.