25 facts of Google

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Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California.

Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol",the number one followed by one hundred zeros.

Originally, Google ran under the Stanford University website, with the domain google.stanford.edu.

Mission of Google "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".

Unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil".

Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee.

Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for 20 years, until the year 2024.

Google loctad at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California,U.S.A

Google office complex come to be known as the Googleplex.

In 2003, Google acquired Blogger.

In 2004, Google formed the not-for-profit philanthropic Google.org, with a start-up fund of $1 billion.

In 2004, Google acquired Keyhole, Inc developed a product called Earth Viewer later became Goolge Earth.

In 2004 Google started Gmail,Adsense,Adwords,

In 2007 Google acquired Youtube,DoubleClick,GrandCentral

Google Inc. currently owns and operates 6 data centers across the U.S., plus one in Finland and another in Belgium.

Google has 33,077 employees.(2012)

Verb "google" means "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet."

In May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed 1 billion for the first time

In 2011,Google strated new socail nework called 'Google plus'

n 2011, Google strated Google Wallet a mobile application for wireless payments.

Google Doodles are shown to celebrate special days.

Google leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, as well as the Google Chrome OS browser-only operating system

Google makes most of the money by Adwords

Google is most visted websites in the world.

Google makes US$ 8 billion profits in 2011.