What are some amazing facts about Google ?

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.

Google uses a web tool called foo.bar to recruit new employees based on what they search for online

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.

If Google sees that you're searching for specific programming terms such as Python, they might just ask you to apply for a job.

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

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

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

It came about when Larry and Sergey visited the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. It was added to the homepage to let users know they were out of office and couldn't fix technical issues like a server crash.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

The first Google computer storage was built with Legos

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

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.

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

The new employees at Google are known as “Nooglers”, short for “New Googlers”. They are easily recognizable, thanks to their multi-colored hats.

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

Google encourages its employees to work on their side projects — as much as 20% of their time. I cannot say, but it was worth the risk — AdSense, Google News, Gmail, and even Orkut are the results of this policy.

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

Google along with its many services rank among the “Top Sites” per Alexa, a third-party web metrics company. That said, YouTube follows Google to rank second, and Google’s Indian version ranks ninth on the list.

It might sound like just a fun and pointless add on, but it was actually useful in circumventing the Great Firewall in China that banned Google.

Google receives and processes over 3.5+ billion search requests per day, which is equivalent to 1.2 trillion searches per year.