Most Amazing facts about Google

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Google is a American search engine company, founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, that is a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc.

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In 2021, Google is the dominant search engine with a 91.94% market share and has 2.5 Trillion searches per year worldwide.

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The original name of Google was Backrub and the Google homepage is available in 80 languages.

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On August 16, 2013, Google was not reachable for 5 minutes, in that time the global Internet usage was decreased by 40%.

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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will run Alphabet as CEO and president while Sundar Pichai will run Google as its new CEO...

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

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Google owns common misspellings of its own name as well, such as www.gooogle.com, www.gogle.com, and www.googlr.com

As part of their green initiative, Google regularly rents goats to mow the lawns of their mountain view HQ

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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.

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