What are some amazing facts about Google ?

Go to Google Maps. Click on the satellite view and zoom out as much as possible. You can see an amazing view of earth with real time shadows. You can see real time clouds if you zoom in twice. Pretty amazing, right?

This means that Google gets millions of searches every day that have never been done before. SEO systems have to keep themselves informed of these new developments in order to remain up-to-date.

Google has a pet T-rex, named Stan, which lives at their California headquarters. Founders bought it to remind the employees to not let Google go extinct.

The Google homepage is available in 80 languages.

Search “atari breakout” in Google Images and you can play the game. Try it now.

Because Google offers its search engine in many languages, Google is used around the world. Google translate is also available in all these 80 languages. The last nine languages that have been added are: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Somali, Zulu, Mongolian, Nepali, Punjabi, and Maori.

Google has been acquiring, on average, more than one company per week since 2010. Source–List of mergers and acquisitions by Google

In 2014 was 89% of Google’s revenue from Google advertising.

Go to Google Mars. You can see a map of Mars. Cool !

Google currently earns the most out of SEA (Search Engine Advertising), companies can pay to stand at the top of the search results in the advertising section. SEO will get you higher in the organic results of Google. Research has shown that search engine users go rather to websites at the top of the organic results.

Type any number in the search bar and Google will spell it out for you.

33% of all searches on Google come from smartphone

Google’s home page has 28 validation errors and five warnings. Check it out here: Google Validation

It is therefore increasingly important that websites are well represented by smartphones. This year on April 21st Google officially introduced their new algorithm that measured mobile usability, which means that if you think about the smartphone usability, you’ll be higher in the Google rankings.

Should a U.S. Google employee pass away while under the employ of the 14-year old search giant, their surviving spouse or domestic partner will receive a check for 50% of their salary every year for the next decade.

Google is derived from the word Googol

Google HQ rents goats from California Grazing to mow their lawns and fields. The employees think that it’s a lot cuter to watch goats do the mowing than lawn mowers. Mowing with Goats

Googol is a very large number. Its a 1 with 100 zero’s.

Google has about 90% of worldwide market share

Google is a wedding planner. Yes, you heard it right. Plan your special day with Google Wedding.

Google Sky Maps allows you to view stars, constellations, galaxies and planets.

Google has a market share of about 90% when it comes to search engines (Jan 2017) . You can find more statistics here.

On September 15, 1997 the domain Google.com was registered

Google Was Originally Known As “Project BackRub”

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